Forum Discussion
I really enjoyed reading your post Liz as you express so well what I myself, and I suspect many other cancer survivors, are feeling. I'm still waiting to have my revelation about how to better live my life. I'm constantly struggling to make small adjustments - drink more green tea, eat more broccoli etc - but I feel like I'm fiddling around the edges (frequently backsliding) and should be making some grand, sweeping change. Even though, like Flitcraft, I guess I'm pretty content with most aspects of my life.
It's a bit like when you're going through the chemo and radiation and friends and aquaintances tell you that you're "so brave". I didn't feel particularly brave, it was just something I had to get through. But people - society if you like - feel they have to impose a meaning on these experiences because they're so scary and dramatic.
I wonder whether the whole idea of "cancer will give you a new perspecitive and change you life for the better" is just a way of putting a positive spin on something that is essentially pretty awful. I'm not saying that's a bad thing - I think it's imporatant to try and keep positive about life - it's just not necessarily completely true. I don't know...I guess, like you, I'm still mulling it all over.
Got to go and wake up the kids now but I will check out your blog later. Janet :)