My Case Method

"That's the thing about trying to have your cake and eating it too. If you make the slightest mistake, you usually wind up getting neither."
-JD, SCRUBS

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is trying to make order out of huge messes. How to come up a winner. And when you are searching for answers, and every systematic approach seems to fail you, it's easy to just give up. Or lose your way. That is why life is like the case method.

Sitting in a lecture is comforting. You know what you are going to get. Everything turns out the way you expect: you study the important topics, you apply them to standard problems, you find the answer. You gain confidence from your victory, or more precisely, from security: You have it all figured out.

But sometimes you are faced with so many challenges, nothing seems to go right, all your training has failed you, and you only hope that one day, something will finally go your way. If you haven't given up, all you can do is sit down, re-evaluate, and try again.

I have still not quite figured out this case method, or life, for that matter. But I do know, that both are about finding your personal way to solve problems. It's all about you, and you cannot get lessons from someone else. And no matter how endlessly tough and messy it seems, I just have to get down in there and solve the problem in front of me. Because when it comes down to it, nothing in this world worth having comes easy.