Comment on October 3rd, 2008.
i agree with where you are at. If cancer, and other such traumas and tragedies are so great then why aren’t we all wanting them to happen to us??? Simply because they suck! And as you say, that doesn’t mean that good things can’t come out of them, but the actual trauma itself isn’t something people desire. Even Jesus asked God if there was any other way when he was about to be crucified.
Comment on October 3rd, 2008.
Amen.
Comment on October 3rd, 2008.
Hey Cam
I totally understand what you are saying, and have also come across people that say “cancer is the BEST thing that ever happened to me”. I want to say…could you please kiss my ass! I feel as you do….I have found many things that cancer has opened my eyes to and it has brought many people into my life I would have never met… my changes…it you want to call it that… is the more of the “grateful I’m here to experience this” type of thing, rather than this earth shattering revelation type thing others talk about. Maybe it’s our stage in this friggin mess we’re in. I was always a positive person BC (before cancer) anyway, so when I read these people say it is the best thing that ever happened to them, it only makes sense to me that they were absolutely 100% type A, always stressed, ignored feelings of all kinds etc etc. type of people. Then it does make somewhat sense that there are such “profound” changes from cancer for them. I think we are just the people we were BC, just a bit more aware and in tune that today is all we have. It’s weird that you wrote about this today, b/c on my blog http://www.janscancerjourney.blogspot.com my last few entries address this exact type of thing. Love and hugs
Comment on November 4th, 2008.
I think maybe you woudl also need a fairly severe mental illness to say that a year with cancer has been the best year of your life. I think it is quite normal to prefer sunshine to rain and fair weather days to really tough ones! Glad to see you are normal!
Maria
Comment on November 4th, 2008.
Ummm more to say. I have heard some people say in hindsight when they have been given the all clear that it was the best thing to ever happen to them. How shitty was their life before? I mean really?
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