WTH?! What is the deal with all the freaking cancer?! At least once a week I find out someone who is related or near and dear to me has or has a relative that is diagnosed with cancer. This is getting ridiculous. Is it just that I have gotten older and now understand what cancer means? Or is it that our doctors and machines have gotten better at recognizing it so it is being caught more? I wonder if there has been an increase in percentage of cases of cancer. That maybe it isn’t more people getting cancer, it is just more people that are being diagnosed.
All I know is that I am done and over it! I understand that we need to have good and bad, but can’t people just die by accident or get badly hurt in a car accident or something? Why do they have to fight for so long, does the outcome change if they did? Would a person change for the better if they were struggling and battling cancer than getting into a bad car crash and having to learn how to walk again? Would the outcome be as sweet? Maybe its the fact that when someone is battling a hard dieses like cancer its not supposed to just affect that person, but maybe those people around them, it affects them too? Unfortunately these are questions I cannot answer…..we can only ponder the "what if"…. but like Shel Silverstien’s poem, "everything seems well and then…."
Authors note: My heart goes out to everyone that is battling a demon, whether it is cancer, a dieses or even something smaller like battling something inside yourself that you don’t like or asthma. I have prayed for you…for you to stay strong and to have the power to fight. It isn’t fair that you have to live with this but that’s not my call to make, I don’t have the power to chose who gets the bad and who gets to stay healthy… that’s up to the big man upstairs. We as humans could not wish that upon anyone…we don’t have the strength to pick and chose…but we do have faith and hope to keep us going…we have support for one another whether we are related or not. We have the power of love …so take action. Donate blood or your time to a cause, spend time in your community, with friends and family. Don’t just sit there and wait…. make a difference!
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