Something struck me this morning. A friend on FB whom I have never met but I know of wrote that he had “picked out his chemo read”. I put a comment on that mimicking the Most Interesting Man, “Stay productive my friends!”
Isn’t that an important part of life, to stay productive. Productive meaning doing something relevant, something meaningful with one’s talents. We need to fight the tendency to put our life on hold when touched by something like cancer. It is not the proper response.
We are needed through all this, we are not on holiday. It is important to remain engaged and interested in the happenings around us. This is practicing positivity. Being outside of one’s own problems is a sign of health I’m saying.
Yup, It was a chance little happening. Maybe I will met this fellow soon. We can compare notes on “chemo reads” and other positivity items.
Off I go. Make it happen out there. Yours, Felipé.
Hola Felipe,
Thank you for this post; it has such a simple and great reminder. It requires such a change of mind on our part to think this way… You put this in a benevolent witty way “we are not on holiday”, but for most people, whenever we are going through something difficult and challenging, the first response is to hide, to go into hibernation mode, to just feel the most unlucky person in the world… Suffering is real, hopefully nobody gets me wrong, but in your words, and in your story and stories about living with cancer, the thing I always always always always always get is the “living” part of them all.
The Veranda among all the things it meant for me, it was also a moment to confirm whether we live what we preach here or not… It was going through a very difficult moment personally, but I have to admit to myself mainly that I fully “lived” the Veranda days, I squeezed each day to the maximum,… and I am convinced that this “living despite all that pulls us to the hibernation mode” that you propose to us all is such an important tool in my tool-box to “right-size” my own story.
Living always Loves,
Cris
Cris ~ I hope that we bring you inspiration. We are here to buoy each other up. Think that we are doing a pretty good job. Miss you, Felipé.x