Simple

Bamidele Olatunbosun

Sound sense can be summed up in a fingerprint
Authenticity is a matter of simplicity
An interesting detail
Since most people feel complex is the best way to express
Complex is the expressway to stress
Each breath is a single play of chess
In an attempt to get my own life in check
Moves don’t always affect outcomes direct
Yet have an intense consequence on the next
Such as years expense I invest
For interests of knowledge, wealth, respect
The percent of the loss I must accept
Will show exempt from the reward I expect
Rather my travel require involved thought
Than live a life unimaginably hard
With an unchallenging job
The task being asked is to recall facts
Keep a handle on diagrams, journals and exams
Exchange when ideas need to be explained
Take days without a schedule’s chain
No clientele to aim to entertain
Nor status to strain to maintain
Currently, I am as salt in the sea
Essential but unhelpful to any person other than me
Merely a digit in a universe of infinite
An ant on a hill with a will to succeed
An arrogant atom absorbed in this organism
What a fortunate position to be
As vividly seen through my eyes
For there are no truth nor lies
To each is his perspective
It would be selfish to believe otherwise
The society we reside in was made to be simplified
An easy formula
Even to a philosophical foreigner
A genius is not one who has knowledge of all the complex
He understands what is necessary to impress with his intellect
Scholars and doctors are not especially gifted
Some happen to think different
Most likely deficient in a critical instrument
Simple nonetheless
How intricate is it to live
The water and air were already here
Animal instincts were seeded in the fetus
Then birth
To breathe, to eat, to love, to excrete
Soft touches are tickles, the hard ones will hurt
Minor details were learned over years on this earth
To speak, to travel, to kiss, to think
Still it will be difficult to convince an individual
That it is not an insult to consider life as trivial
It is the consolation to the riddle providence has given you
Which we will view on the eve of our interview.

Bamidele Olatunbosun

Year in Medical School: 1st

Place of birth:
St. Louis, MO

Where you grew up:
Brooklyn/Queens, NY

College: University of Pennsylvania

Major in College: Economics

Goals: To have a major medical affiliation somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Personal Philosophy & Favorite Quote: “If you are not handsome by 20, strong by 30, wise by 40, rich by 50, forget it, you are lost. Such is life.”  (From a poster I read in Ghana.)