Choose Your HeroesChoose to Enjoy YourselfChoose Your FriendsChoose whose advice you takeChoose your relativesChoose how you spend your timeChoose to plan for the future …"Write your troubles on a slip of paper and burn it. Now make a list of all the things you want to do next year." Choose to Love who you areChoose to Accept SorrowChoose to DreamChoose Something NewChoose to Give in to YourselfChoose to make things beautifulChoose to tell your own storyChoose to ForgiveChoose to Claim your pastChoose to be yourselfChoose to Share … "plan to survive"Choose Love … "Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty." "My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness."Choose the Evidence"Write it down. Even if it's a few sentences. Because you won't remember. You think you will never forget, but you will""Make a list of what all you have loved in this unfair and beautiful world. Fireflies. Blue Herons. Fresh coffee." I didn't know exactly what I was picking up on my recent trip to the library. I saw this book sitting on a shelf and thought let me try it out. Soon after cracking open the cover I realized this was a story for those with cancer. I've never been diagnosed with cancer but this book was more than that. It was almost like life lessons everyone needs to read. Most of the stories hit very close to home. Ideas of change that I was already trying to implement in my own life. It made me think of all the wonderful days I got to spend with my grandmother. She battled bladder cancer for over 13 years but she chose to live each day to the fullest. I always wondered if she was really human because she was so strong, she was a warrior, she was perfect, above all else she was my hero. I can never imagine all the things she went through and survived in her 96 years. This is a book that should be read by not only those fighting for their lives but by those trying to support them.
What do You think about Survival Lessons (2013)?
words of wisdom - living fully when ill - works well if you aren’t ill as well!!
—Gemerbar
good advice, like it came from an old friend or relative
—jordyboy1
