I enjoyed this exchange; it's funny, Kanoa, in that I understand why you would recommend forgetting suffering, but I am terrified that I will forget! Why? I can't stand the idea that all the difficulty wrought by this diagnosis won't bring me and those in my world lifelong benefits; most of all, to remember to appreciate in as many momen…
I enjoyed this exchange; it's funny, Kanoa, in that I understand why you would recommend forgetting suffering, but I am terrified that I will forget! Why? I can't stand the idea that all the difficulty wrought by this diagnosis won't bring me and those in my world lifelong benefits; most of all, to remember to appreciate in as many moments as possible that I am alive and not in terrible pain and there is no guarantee of either, and also to recall my mission in this life as often as I can because life, it seems, is too fragile to be drifting about purposelessly. In any case, I hope the three of us take our lessons forward and get the most out of what our lives hold!
23 years ago, Buzz, I came to much the same conclusion.
Being a computer programmer, of course I parsed my fear and resentment by asking myself if I wanted to spend the rest of my life being angry and afraid, or did I want to wake up every morning to enjoy a beautiful sunrise, and see a smile on my wife's face.
My Binary solution required a few weeks worth of examination, during which I did not know which of the non Hodgkin lymphomas might be the death of me.
I suspected there might be a flaw in the logic. However, I realized that being constantly angry for six weeks or six months or sixty years, would be a most destructive way to live.
My wife agreed, as did all my friends. We had a lovely celebration when the pathology report found an indolent form of b cell non Hodgkin lymphoma.
I enjoyed this exchange; it's funny, Kanoa, in that I understand why you would recommend forgetting suffering, but I am terrified that I will forget! Why? I can't stand the idea that all the difficulty wrought by this diagnosis won't bring me and those in my world lifelong benefits; most of all, to remember to appreciate in as many moments as possible that I am alive and not in terrible pain and there is no guarantee of either, and also to recall my mission in this life as often as I can because life, it seems, is too fragile to be drifting about purposelessly. In any case, I hope the three of us take our lessons forward and get the most out of what our lives hold!
23 years ago, Buzz, I came to much the same conclusion.
Being a computer programmer, of course I parsed my fear and resentment by asking myself if I wanted to spend the rest of my life being angry and afraid, or did I want to wake up every morning to enjoy a beautiful sunrise, and see a smile on my wife's face.
My Binary solution required a few weeks worth of examination, during which I did not know which of the non Hodgkin lymphomas might be the death of me.
I suspected there might be a flaw in the logic. However, I realized that being constantly angry for six weeks or six months or sixty years, would be a most destructive way to live.
My wife agreed, as did all my friends. We had a lovely celebration when the pathology report found an indolent form of b cell non Hodgkin lymphoma.