The Best Things in Life are Free (a heartfelt post)

I've sorta taken a summer sabbatical, a hiatus if you will from blogging. I've been involved in a surgery preceptorship for the last four weeks and it has been quite an experience. I wish I could have taken some pictures of the things I saw, but that would violate privacy laws and if Loma Linda found out they would terminate me immediately and use me as a cadaver.

So in lieu of a surgery post I will do a post on a "free thing."

Item 1: The San Mateo House entertainment center. I'm quite proud of this pearl we found. Brian, my new roommate, and I went down to the white house and found this puppy. The white house is a place where students can go and find free stuff that people donate when they move away. But I realized that this is not really free at all, actually FAR from it since I've had to pay many tens of thousands for school in order to qualify for free stuff at the white house. And while we think it is rather nice, most people would call it a piece of crap, so it is therefore not the best either.
So when does the phrase apply that "the best things in life are free?" I was beginning to be discouraged that this phrase is utterly false and life has very little meaning. But after pondering this question for seconds and seconds, a revelation came to me.

FAMILY














You didn't ask for them, you didn't know them, and yet you were given to them and they were given to you. They didn't cost a dime and your stuck with them no matter what. I'm not trying to make them sound cheap, but they are indeed the BEST.

So now you know why come "the best things in life are free."