Well all face challenges, struggles and obstacles no matter who we are. No matter how blessed we may be, or whatever comes our way. For me personally, like anyone else, I am trying to figure out things that have (or have not) come my way.
There is a huge misnomer that if you are a healthy person you are “better off.” While having your physical health is great, there are plenty who have life just as bad with it. Plenty who were healthy and “had everything to live for” who took their own lives. If that had been true. If they had been happy. They’d still be here. Laughing, smiling, living the full life they didn’t really have. Who would trade their true love, their family, the people they love, their children for better health? Yet many will tell someone with good physical health who have none of those, no one to turn to, no one to love, no children of their own, they are somehow better off.
If I had said this earlier in my life, when I had better physical health, many would have accused me of ablesplaning. Well, they can’t now can they…
And I respectfully and unapologetically stand by that point of view as I know now, the same as I did then, it’s true. And had I had some of these blessings in life before my cancer diagnosis, I have no doubt the challenges I now face would have been softened as a result.
Rob
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