There is a family in Silver City of seven members, all seven are medical doctors. Father is a gynaecologist while mother is a paediatrician. All five children are doctors of one kind or another.
Keziah has a classmate whose parents are both medical doctors too. Over the years the first daughter became a haematologist. The second son became a physician who sings in his leisure time. The third son wanted to become a film director when he was 16. Both father and mother objected. They must have gone on their knees to pray for him to change his mind. Over a two year period his interest moved onto economy and he chose to go to a country other than where his siblings went for further studies.
Recently I wonder if his outrageous first choice was a means to deflect away medicine? His eldest sister did want to be a doctor. But his elder brother did not want to be a doctor initially. Yet his suggestion of music as a major was not practical. His father countered with an offer of spending the million prepared into purchasing a shop lot and equipping it into a music instrument shop for him to run. He thought about it and retreated to medicine.
While the third one was growing up, he must have been looking at the first one undergoing a most demanding course. Then she saw how the second one reluctantly persevered through two degrees to qualify. I actually think being a very smart person, he thought of a way to counter the father's one-track mind.
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