POST 4 Mason Saunders

Thousands of displaced Syrian peoples crowd the niches and crevasses of a destroyed street. This picture is significant because it provides a summation of the life of a refugee. Cramming into inhumanly tight spaces with individuals that you have never met before, always wary the impending hazards around you (i.e. falling concrete, getting caught in crossfire, starvation, dehydration, IED's, illness from that person next to you who won't stop coughing up fluids) constantly unsure if you or your family members will make it to the next day or even the next hour? That is what this photo tells us and while seeing it may not be a historical event for the American people, it should definitely be thought provoking. For me, I think of what I can do now, virtually nothing, and what I can do later, much more, and it inspires me to push myself to be the best I can, if for anything, the benefit of peoples like this who can benefit from my work post medical school.