Chemistry and Me!!!!

“Chemistry and me”, as this title was written by my lecturer, it gave me a glance of my past. A past on where I made the decision to enroll myself in this course in the scientific field which has a large focus onto chemistry. Chemistry is connected to us in so many ways we have never pictured it to be. Many picture love and relationships to have essence of chemistry in it. We’ll they obviously have no idea they are parading themselves as two reactive substances which made a good solution to their problems. Chemistry goes way deeper into the scientific field as many of us fail to realize. It’s not something that is to be ignored because chemistry is a big part of our lives. If you look at it right, chemistry is in everything we do in our daily lives; it’s just that we don’t realize.

Until recently, I never had a clue on why I had chose a course which is so filled with chemistry and life; diploma in pharmacy. As a child, I’ve had a fear towards medication. This is due to the injections and dosages of medication that I have been given all this time, which I’ve nearly lost count of how much I’ve had. To the contrary of my decision, I’m Hemophobic. Even the slightest glance of my own blood scares me. And thus my decision has always been one of the questions that has repeatedly occurred in my head. Why am I now in this world of chemistry? Not only me, but all those who have known me well tend to ask me the same thing. Funny when you come to think about it really. I was once a person who didn’t want to engage in chemistry and I’m now in a world of chemistry.

I came to realize that not only now my life is filled with chemistry. Me and chemistry, we go way back in time. The knowledge of chemistry brings me back to bitter memories back when I was a 5 year old child. To my memory, chemistry began when I was diagnosed with kidney stones as a child. Being hospitalized at such a young age didn’t really seem like a good idea to me then, but I had to do so because of my state of health which required a great deal of expertise and a whole load of drugs. Painful IV leads which directed the medication in the form of drips was given to me and I had to swallow so much medication which I had no knowledge of. All of this I did, for my mum who had wanted a cure for the kidney stone. Which now I know was a form of crystallization in my kidney which I understand is dangerous therefore I had to endure the pain. At that age, I had seemed to hate the idea of hospitals and medications.

It didn’t stop there. The painful injections and the bitter medications hadn’t end for another 2 weeks after I had been discharged from the hospital. Of course it wasn’t as bad as before as my family doctor had been giving me the required dosages to keep up with the healing process. There it was, I had a cure. I was free from the stones which I’ve never seen. I had a break from the medications I never liked. I had relief from being told I don’t need the injections.

Only then a little bell rang in my head. How did all the drugs get rid of my kidney stone? Are medications like magic? That’s when I realized my curiosity had developed an interest in my growing mind. As a child I wanted to know the effect on medications towards our body. I craved more knowledge on how drugs in proper supervision can give cure. My craving for knowledge grew as I stepped into the doors of high school which gave me an exposure to chemistry. There! I had found it; it was chemistry that was in the drugs. Chemistry was the knowledge applied to create such magical working tablets and fluids which cured the diseased and the sick.

The spoon-fed knowledge of chemistry from school had cleared my mind on what path I wish to pursue. “It had to have chemistry; and it will be fun”. This had helped me decide that I wanted to be a pharmacist. Wanting to be a pharmacist made me feel like I was the one who would be able to create the magic behind the pills. The power to help and the will to try. And thus I proceeded into my diploma course of pharmacy. 

Each day was something new, knowledge was pouring out my lecturer’s mouth as her words entered my learning mind. I came to know, that the misuse of drugs is very misleading. It caused a raise in the growth of irresponsible lives that had been labeled as drug addicts. Only then I realized that it was the pleasure of relieve given by drugs is of what they crave of. I realized this as I once had misused my flu medication as a stress relieve pill. At that time all I thought of my flu medication was as if it was a magical blue pill that relieves my stress and burdens that grew with college life. I came to a stop to that nasty habit of mine as I deeper grew in chemistry. The knowledge I gained gave me a clear picture that as a future pharmacist I must be at least one of the people who tried to curb this issue of drug  misuse not an addition to the number of addicts out there. 

My personal experiences and encounters with chemistry of life had thought me that I needed to know more about medications; its ingredients and the effect it has brought to mankind. The magic I wanted to learn would not have been possible without the power of chemistry. I had my mind set to it. It was chemistry. When I have chemistry in my hands, I will one day make magic. I will be the one behind the lives being saved due to good production of drugs which is needed vastly throughout the nation and worldwide. A team of chemistry lovers can make this world a better place. In when I hope drug problems would have come to an end. For this I will be generous enough to share my new best friend; chemistry to the world.