Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Yesterday was not a good day for Dr. Vivien Batoyan-Sagisi. That she wore black to her sentencing said volumes to what she must have been feeling. There will be those who say that justice must be served and perhaps six months behind bars somewhere in a Phoenix desert is that for having made a bad choice.(It's reported she made it twice) A thousand hours of community service isn't punishment, although her picture doesn't appear in newspapers, she's known to give to the community. I think that the six years of managed probation will probably be the most inconvenient, but then that's part of the distribution of justice. As well, one can't be sure what kind of blow this will make on her profession as a doctor and the cynical will say that she should have taken this into consideration, alas! In a perfect world, there is time for such things!
This isn't a perfect world and Dr. Batoyan-Sagisi isn't a perfect being...perhaps instead of judging the doctor, we can view her as one who is climbing one of life's mountains(yes, we all have them from time to time... Many will refer to these as 'lessons'). Let's wish her Godspeed and hope that there's healing and growth and some mental relaxation, if not joy at this place that she must spend time away from her family at...Richard Nixon said,"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
Hopefully, others will learn the lesson from her example and escape the awful and sad climb to the top....