This might seem silly.

Lol it's funny how we all react differently to different phrases.  I wonder if it is our age groups or experiences or who knows what? I think for me it seems a 'New Age' sort of term (but that's just me) and I hear it a lot from my sister who has all sorts of journeys involving things metaphysical...gongs, bowls, chanting etc. But if she's happy and it doesn't involve human sacrifices, each to their own!  I'd like a journey through Europe, personally. I'm glad it's not called 'your ordeal' though!  "How's your ordeal going?" doesn't sound great.  I'm quite interested in the words we use to try and describe how we deal with cancer.  It seems to have it's own vocab that's been built around a word that people don't want to hear out loud ...  'the Big C' is slowly being rephrased.  A friend responded to my diagnosis with "well it's not a death sentence anymore" and I really hadn't thought of death yet so I was unhappy with that response. I guess it's hard for people to know what to say but I would rather "I'm sorry to hear that" or "oh sh5t! what can I do?"  'Survivor" is another tricky one for me personally but only because of family connections to Hitler's death camps.  But something like surviving that is so far away from our own daily individual battles that it's apples and oranges.  I think we are all surviving on a daily basis sometimes.  And to throw in some C&W, "Some days are diamonds, some days are stone."  Last rad tomorrow!