I'm a list maker, but whenever it comes to listing my life goals for 5 years, 10 years or 20 years from now, I'm not any good at it. However, I recently stumbled across a blog of a girl that's close to my age. She has been diagnosed with stage IV cancer and told she only has 6-12 months to live. The gist of her blog is a list of things she wants to do in the 180+ days (6 months) she has left to live. She's still pursuing treatment and is hopeful she'll outlive her diagnosis, but she's living her life for what she has left.
This story really hit me. Both my parents are cancer survivors. Thankfully, their cancers were caught early and responded to treatment. Each time they have a test to ensure their cancers are in remission, I hold my breath until I get a call with the good news. I've gotten a call with the bad news, and you still let your breath out, just in a much different way, like a punch straight in your diaphragm with a little pain and breathlessness. But, like the blog I found, you still have to live as though you have life.
Sometimes, I think about my future, and I see some type of cancer in it. I don't want to get my diagnosis and realize I only have days to conquer my bucket list - that I don't have because I never take the time to write it down. I want to live my life checking off my dreams and making them come true.
So, I'm working on a list. It will be in no particular order, but there were probably be subheadings, because the type A may come out. :) As I check each one off, I'll link to a post about it.
Aren't you excited? haha!
