My Cousin, Dave blogged about the ways cancer is hitting him of late. As I read it, happy to be mentioned and to be clean-living, I wondered if anyone knows more about cancer and death than anyone else. His experience is deeper than mine; although I actually had/have cancer, he’s suffered more loss from it.
And as I hope my blog clarifies, I’ve learned nothing.
Cancer is awful, but so is heart disease, and a host of other things that kill. Cancer has the randomness aspect that makes it so scary, but so do cars, and all the other merciless killers that the USA mostly misses out on.
His perspective was from a witness and as one reaching a certain age where people start dying. I’ve heard it often from older friends that one day they realized that they were in a losing game. More friends are dying at an accelerating pace. That’s the future.
I was counting books on the shelves a couple of years back and realized that I have 60-80 years of books awaiting me at my current pace, assuming I buy no new ones, and that hit me hard. FINITE.
That’s the hardest word for our species. Finite.
I think his Carpe Diem theme is great and I’ve tried to push that direction in this blog–to inspire myself as much as my 3 readers. I’m still lazy and lagging, and nothing really changed. That’s my story: I finally got a life-changing diagnosis and it didn’t work.
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