When you're right into a book it's amazing how quickly you get through it.
Having finished Lance Armstrong's account of his `journey back to life' after cancer I have to say it was overall an inspiring story.
Sure there were some quite difficult sections but the bottom line is where there's life there is hope. He goes as far as to say that cancer is meant to improve us as people.
Hmmm.
`We have unrealised capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis', he writes.
I think that is definitely true both in theory and based on some of my own experience with illness (though not cancer, admittedly).
I'd totally recommend reading this book if you haven't already. It is a great shake up and a great lesson about the importance of life and fighting for it when it is challenged.
It's a hard battle at times, the book, but Armstrong includes a lot of the details for our benefit and not to freak us out (though it probably will).
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