An Open Letter To Kylie Jenner From A Med Student

What Kylie Jenner should know about someone who ACTUALLY works their ass off every day to save lives and has EARNED every step along the way.

Dear Ms. Jenner

First I would like to start by saying I do not hate you, or any member of the Kardashian/Jenner family. I am not jealous of your situation, I only wish to bring the real world to your attention for a moment.

Like any 23 year old female in todays society, I indulgently follow you and every one of your siblings on snap chat, instagram, twitter, and every form of social media possible. I relish every new post that appears, analyzing your outfits, make up, and every down to every last detail. And while I sit here imagining what your life is like, I stop to think. "Do you ever wonder what our life is like?" The lives of us little people? Well let me enlighten you.

I am a third year med school student. And my day starts with an emergency wake up call at 3 am to report to the Cardiac ICU. I do not snap chat me waking up, or driving frantically to the hospital, or my lack of make up as I scramble to even put on pants.

The next day I have 2 exams and a quiz on top of the 3 hours of sleep I got. While you are sitting in a chair under bright lights getting your make up done, I am squinting in the bright fluorescent lights of a classroom, nervously checking over my answers for the 10th time. As yo complain that the paparazzi won't leave you alone to live your life, I am frustrated that the patient I saw today with stage 4 Breast cancer will not make it see Easter this year. As you sit in the audience watching Yeezy 3 Fashion show from high above in the stands, I over look an emergency Coronary bypass surgery that takes roughly 9 hours. When you instagram the fun outing you had on Saturday night, I am anxiously snapping photos of my Pharmacology text book so I can study on the go. And when you complain that your lips are your "biggest insecurity" I try to think how my biggest insecurity at the moment is that I will not be able to save every patient that walks through the ER doors.

Although I understand we all have different paths in life that lead us down different career choices and very separate lives, I just ask that maybe one time when you snap chat the new Chanel purse you got as a gift for Valentines day, you remember that purse costs nearly an entire year of school for me. And that despite the privileged entertaining life you lead, there are still people like me who are working their assess off to save yours when you need it.