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Overhead discussion yesterday that made me sad/angry
yestersay while out shopping and at a checkout so I couldn’t really move I heard a older lady saying to someone really young looking. Well is she a fighter she needs to be a fighter !!!! Her reply well she is a bit anxious and scared of the chemo. I actually wanted to punch the older in the face to imply that only fighters will survive. We have a family friend that did all that she could but she still died.
And to say that to a young daughter wtf.
Ggrrr.
And to say that to a young daughter wtf.
Ggrrr.
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- @Zoffiel is it too early to say what I am ? I might look for the book is it something still available.
- OOps should have been or slap them :D
- If I hear one more person say "Journey" I am either going to throw up of slap them. I go with Booby Prize @Joannie as well.
- Apart from the hero, or protagonist, there are the mentor, ally, herald, shapeshifter, trickster, guardian and shadow.
Which makes eight. My brain don't work anymore. I've got my archetypes mixed up with my seven stories. Phhffft. - @zoffiel. What are the seven characters? We did a thing in a team building thing at my old with that decided ya into birds. I got dove. The biggest dickhead there got eagle. Wtf what the only other choices were peacock and owl. The jokes around the office for a few weeks was watch out little dove eagles eat you for breakfast
- Shit happens kit.
- Lets blame Joseph Campbell for the whole journey business. He wrote a book called ' The hero's journey' where he unravelled myths from all over the world and came up with a formula for what makes a story feel familiar and complete.
Part of that were the seven archetypes or characters that feature in most heroic tales. I've kept myself amused for years fitting the people I've encountered during my cancer experience into that structure. I'd rather be distracted than terrified so that exercise works for me.
I'm not sure what word I could use in public to describe this whole shitfight, but I agree that journey doesnt cut it. Every time I hear that word it gives me the irrits so quickly that I get quite hostile towards whomever comes out with it. Childish, I know, considering that I can't come up with an appropriate alternative. - My pet hate question or phrase that a lot of people use when i tell them i had a lumpectomy is, "Oh at least you got to keep your breast." I really feel like bitch slapping them !!! Really....it's only a quarter of a deformed scarred breast but at least i got to keep it !! Hahaha
