Cancer is called the ' Emperor of Maladies.' It comes in
many ways, many forms and in different parts of the body. Where it attacks is
unknown. It is astonishing one multiplying cell can end up in a storm of
anxiety. But when cancer attacks, it makes one realize the value of life and living
in its full potential. “All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique
way.” ― Siddhartha Mukherjee, how true it is. It makes you fall in love with
yourself in a very unique way. Though it gifts you with a lot of pain for life,
it makes you realize that it is the pain which keeps you alive.
The day, pain becomes an unknown factor, and then you cease to live in its full
sense.
The rapport and understanding that I have witnessed between
the cancer patients and survivors is immense. Probably they understand what
pain is and what it is to be threatened with an illness that has the power to overpower
you if you are not willing to give it a fight. They have a smile of
understanding for the other, which is rarely seen in daily life. Each patient
or survivor feels it is a ghost of a cell, which mutates and threatens behind
dark curtains. I have heard many of them say, that it is a disease that none
should get. It could be because they know the trauma of going through all the
treatment and facing all the pains with a smile to defeat it.
Today, again I felt the irony of life and mused over it. A
diagnostic center that would be seeing innumerable cancer patients and
survivors daily, are surprised at the quirk of fate, gifted to me. I was amused
at the thought of having an IV set on my leg, but they preferred fixing it on
the side that was operated upon first. Talking to me they were surprised that I
had three surgeries for cancer in three years and most of them had come for a
routine scan. One man even told me, "Probably cancer has fallen in love
with you." I smiled at his statement because I always say that to all.
Cancer was the best
thing that happened to me because I got back my lost self who was always one
with nature. It gave me the time to do all that I had left out in the rat race
of life. In spite of everything I feel blessed in many ways. I had the will to
endure and celebrate my pain; make it a beautiful one that keeps me alive with
a bounce in my step, a song in my heart, a burning fire in my soul and a
beaming smile on my face.
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