Cancer Lessons
The subject of today’s post was brought to mind recently when a friend was diagnosed with prostate cancer. It brought back memories of the time thirteen years ago when I received my diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer. I was shocked and frightened: “This can’t be happening to me.” I can’t help but think that this is not really too different from what many of us are feeling about the current upheaval in this country. Perhaps there are lessons for us here. In going through the cancer process day-by-day, I learned things that fundamentally changed my life for the better. I used to operate on the background assumption that I had a large block of time—twenty-five to thirty years or more—ahead of me. I was healthy and both of my parents lived to be nearly ...
