Story-Time Tuesdays? Is this a thing?

Story-Time Tuesdays!!! Stop it Gretchen, you can never make "Story-Time Tuesdays" a thing. Mean Girls, anyone? So, little known fact, I am actually a senior in college finishing my undergraduate bachelor's degree in Pre-Medicine (Emphasis in biology). Naturally, my thoughts have been on medical school, and the time, effort, tears, and ridiculous requirements needed to get into medical school. One of the not so outrageous requirements is shadowing a physician. Now, I know a general surgeon who has known me since my Aladar fetus stage in life (Dinosaur anyone? Any '90s kids out there?!?), and he agreed to let me shadow him in the clinic and in the operating room. 

Awesome, right? Haha, not so fast there children. 

It was my first day shadowing this doctor in the operating room, and the first surgery was at 7:30 a.m. (approximately). This is already an ungodly hour of the morning, and on top of being nervous-ecstatic about being in the OR for the first time, I stupidly and irrationally decided not to have breakfast. Yeah, I know you guys sitting behind your laptop screens are snarking, smirking, and giggling at me saying, "Look at this chick, not eating before going in to stand watching surgeries...wait, seriously? Is she serious right now?". Well, shut your faces! I am here to tell you a story, a great and hilarious story that I shall tell you in...CARTOON DRAWINGS! Your favorite, right? I know, I know, calm yourselves. 

Come to the storyboard with me:

Yeah...that was embarrassing. And the fact that I spelled "embarrassment" wrong on the second page is even worse. It is midnight, and I am doing the best I can here, just tell me it will be okay! 

Now the question is: What is your Story-Time Tuesday story?? Share with me in the comments or however you wish. Wait, this is the Internet, so I am going to take that last part back and just say leave it to the comment section for now. Now I'm done. 

FIN. 

BBC and Passion??

Passion. What comes to mind when you think of the word "passion"? Well, scarily enough, I decided to browse the Internets to see what online dictionaries had to say about it, and boy oh boy, the first thing that I happened upon (at dictionary.com, if you care to look up their definitions of "passion" yourself) are mostly about sexual desire, lust, or just ardor. Even at another site (freedictionary.com) the first definition to pop up was about sexual desire, basically everything that has already been aforementioned. Feeling resigned at this point, I thought to myself, "Well, maybe the British will get it right?"
So, I went out on a limb in trusting the Brits (although it isn't hard to when they have beautiful men such as Benedict Cumberbatch on their side), and I was rewarded. Their first definition was just a generic definition of strong, uncontrollable emotions. Yet, the third definition caught my eye, as it read, "an intense desire or enthusiasm for something". Jackpot.
I bring this up because I am slightly perturbed with a mindset that I have encountered through PERSONAL experience as of late. Some individuals I have encountered and had conversations with seem to have lost passion. These individuals seem to be passionately focused on the rewards or benefits that a certain career or life decision will give them in the end. That is not passion to me. Passion is that intense desire to go beyond your own wants, needs, and desires. Passion is seeing a flaw or a injustice in the world and desiring intensely to change whatever said flaw or injustice may be. This passion is without thought of selfish benefits (money-wise, socially, physically) and just about desiring to drive into place the change that desperately needs to happen.
To be honest, right now I am re-evaluating what I thought was my passion for a long time. I am trying to just be honest with myself, and not judge myself as a failure if I find a greater passion in life.
The reason I would judge myself as a failure is because I feel like others have set up expectations for me or my life, and deviating from that path would make me seem...wishy-washy, flaky, or just a flat out failure. That is my own personal problem though, and I need to stop judging myself through other people's minds. Ouch. That was painful to even type.

Now, on a lighter note:

1) Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, BBC): if you want to feel the dictionary.com definition of passion, I will give you a picture in order for you all to do so. (Image from: http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/856136-benedict-cumberbatch-frankenstein-is-about-bad-parenting)

2) Bradley James & Colin Morgan (Merlin, BBC): Also to inspire that dictionary.com passion within everyone's bosom. (Images from: http://fyeahbradleyjames.tumblr.com and http://atrl.net)