You have just been diagnosed with cancer

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    (or any other serious disease that could take your life) what do you do? Do you change the way you approach life? Do you start living more to get the most out of things? I really want to hear your answers about this.
     
    I would have a wish granted to meet Matt Smith. <3

    I'm not sure. I mean, I'd be pretty scared at first to know I had something that could take my life. It'd probably just increase my anxiety because there are a lot of things I can't do while having crippling anxiety. I couldn't really say what I would do at this point. :/
     
    It would definitely change my perspective on things, to be sure. I wouldn't take things for granted as much as I seem to now. Depending on the cancer, I may try and fulfill more.

    My grandfather died from cancer, so I know full well what it can do.
     
    I'd change a lot of things for sure. Take less things for granted I suppose. But, I doubt I'd change THAT much. I currently don't keep much contact with my extended family outside of my grand parents and my mother so I doubt I'd go out of my way to talk/reach out to relatives. I doubt I'd make any amendments to current broken friendships. I think I would most likely just love those that I'm close to a little more than I do now, and maybe question my religion.
     
    Healthy is just dying at a slower rate.

    A lot of the decisions I've been making as of late try to keep that idea in mind. I'm not as afraid of death as I am dying having not done all that you wanted to do in life. I think a diagnosis like cancer would surely bring a little more urgency to that mentality. I don't want to say now I'm already living with an endangered mindset, it's just something that I try to keep in mind and still apply.
     
    I don't know what I'd do. I'd probably cry. A lot. But then I'd get up and keep living life, but with a little more caution. Reality checks like that, I'd imagine, do miracles in opening up your eyes, and makes you aware of what you take for granted on a normal basis. Everything seems more important. I don't think I'd change too much, though. I've always been someone who takes stuff (or tries anyway) not for granted. But still, it'd hurt, knowing that I have an expiration date.
     
    Idk cancer runs in both sides of my family. Like every family member gets it eventually. I know it's a very possible thing to happen to me one day so I've just accepted it. I mean if it does happen I won't be 100% okay with it, but I'd try to just relax and go through with treatments. There's not much else I could do anyway.
     
    If I know that I'm 100% going to die within a couple of years, what's the point of working for anything now? I would honestly just become really scared and resort to not doing anything productive and probably crying. A lot.
     
    If this is the "yo, you're gonna die in 6 months k thx bai" kind of cancer, I'd try to enjoy what's left of my life as much as possible. Guess the hard part would be deciding what to do first.

    If its the kind of cancer that's certain to kill you but take quite a while....I'd better step up my plans for world domination.
     
    [PokeCommunity.com] You have just been diagnosed with cancer

    Duh.

    Well, I already have a mature perspective on things (which won't get me anywhere if I'm gon' die), so I guess I'll do something like Walter White.

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    I'd... most likely just take a bullet in between my eyes. If I end up with a disease that'll end up killing me in due time, my first thought is that my life is all but forfeit.

    So rather than just wait for it to approach slowly, I'd much rather accelerate this process, & save myself the pain & suffering. As in cases such as this, death in my eyes is like mercy.
     
    "Well damn, might as well do something productive." Things happen, I'd just go on, it depends really. If the cancer is 100% deadly and incurable, tough luck. I don't fear death.
     
    I'd pull a Walter White, gotta live life to the fullest. Plus if I'm going to die, I'd better do something super fun
     
    Having health anxiety makes this hard to think about, but I'll have to get over it someday.

    I'd probably quit whatever job I had and become a Buddhist monk high up on a mountain somewhere.
     
    If I only had a certain amount of time to live, I'd probably make sure that I was satisfied with my life before I died. I would do pretty much everything on my bucket list, like travel across the world, meet a celebrity, learn a new skill, etc. Things that will let me die happy.
     
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    Been there, done that a few times now with different things - most recently the exact situation in the title, right down to being told that I was probably not gonna survive very long. So it's interesting now, thinking back, and seeing how my perspective on this whole thing has changed and also interesting reading the thoughts of some people here.

    Being diagnosed with such a thing was definitely a wake-up call of sorts. Not exactly "RIGHT TIME TO DO SOMETHING WITH MY LIFE AND GO TRAVELLING AND MEDITATE ON A MOUNTAIN AND COOK METH AND" because in the state that being told you're probably going to die leaves you in, you're not really thinking about any of those things; nor do you honestly have the drive (and likely, the physical capacity) to do them. It's more a wake-up call in a "oh, damn. this is like, a thing that is happening." way; a sort of realisation that, just like all those people you see statistics about on TV and read about in the news, at some point you are going to die. Maybe or maybe not now, but definitely at some stage; it shatters that sort of false sense of security, the idea that "it's alright, it's not gonna happen" that you go around with every day - you realise that you used to think you were invincible, but you were just as vulnerable as everyone else the whole time.

    In turn with that rather... morbid thought does eventually come the whole "right, I'm gonna do something now" moment. For most people anyway. But there also comes with that another horrible, nagging thought at the back of your mind - that this moment came too late. You wish more than anything that you'd realised earlier, when you were in a much more practical state to actually do stuff, that life's a finite thing and that you really do need to make the most of it.

    It's the latter of the above that makes me read this thread and almost be humoured by the responses, since I used to think exactly like all you guys. "Damn, if I was diagnosed with something that I was told was probably gonna kill me, I'd get living life to the full straight away!!!!". But now I realise what... honestly, little sense that makes. I now sit here reading that and want to smack my head on a table because why for the love of god did i wait until i was at my worst to start living like i was at my best. It's entirely illogical to wait until you know that your time is limited, and until you're in a situation which limits what you're able to do, to start spending your time how you want to. So I'd really invite anyone here who said something similar to the above to scratch that thought entirely and start doing it right now. The blunt truth is that you are not invincible, you are not always going to be as able as you are right now, and one day it's entirely possible that you will be in the OP's situation and you'll think back to when you said "If I was diagnosed with [whatever] my perspective on life would change and I'd start re-thinking what was important and I'd live life how I want to and I'd fill out my bucket list and etc" and realise that you didn't need to wait to do all that.

    I'm lucky in that I'm (for the most part) better now and I did manage to come out on the better side of what we thought was gonna pretty much do me in. I'm lucky that I've now got the opportunity to use the things I came to terms with during that time for the better for the rest of my life. And you guys are all lucky that you're already in a position to do so. But please for the love of god do not take your current position for granted. Do not wait until you're in the worst position to start being at your best. Do it now.

    ...or alternatively you could just go cry forever like some people itt because it's easier or something idk lol
     
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