empathy, n.the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another. sympathy, n. the harmony of feeling naturally existing between persons of like tastes or opinion or of congenial dispositions. Everyone knows that these are different, right? They are. JUSTIFIABLY CRYPTIC. I have a long fuse, and a lot of pride. If you know me at all, you probably know those two things about me. It's been a long year of medical school. I did it, and I passed, and stuff happened that needed to happen--more than that, really great stuff, future career-wise, happened, and keeps happening. I'm going to be a doctor. I just moved, and it was harder than any part of medical school so far. I exaggerate sometimes--this is not one of them. I'm not always proud of myself at these moments. It's like a pun. I'm not proud of my pride. I am proud of my long fuse. So I'm not proud when it runs out. Too proud for you? Probably too much detail for some of you; not enough for others. For anyone reading this that thinks my life for the past year has been a vale of sorrow, it hasn't. I just have a long fuse, and a lot of pride. | 
