When diagnosed with multiple cancers, most people don’t say that the cancer saved their life. Kathy Brinkman, a victim of breast, liver, lymph, and lung cancer, proclaimed to the world that her cancer saved her life. Pre-diagnosis, Kathy “sweat the small stuff” and worried about little things in life. After she was told that she had very little time to live, she began to approach life in a new way. She pushed her prejudices aside and lived life to the fullest.
All too often it takes tragedies to make many people live life to the fullest. Brinkman was one of these many people. She became more outgoing and got to meet many more cancer patients who shared her same outlook on life once a tragedy befell her. If everyone in the world were able to have this same outlook on life without tragedy occurring, our lives would become extremely more peaceful. If we had a positive outlook on life we would be kind to everyone, not sweat the small stuff, not be greedy, and do all the good we possibly could do.
I’m going to make a personal goal to live my life day by day. For as long as I can remember, I have found myself constantly doing little things that will help my future. I haven’t lived in the moment. I studied hard to get all A’s and good SSAT scores in middle school in order to get into a good boarding school which would then prepare me for college. I pushed myself to go out of my comfort zone to live away from home at the early age of fourteen to prepare myself for the challenging task ahead of me. I pressured myself in high school to get great grades so I could go to the best college possible so I could get a good job later in life in order to be happy. As you can see, this chain is still continuing. I have been working towards the future constantly and looking forward to what will come and anxiously waiting for each day to be over so I can get to the next class, weekend, break, or graduation. Living like this has prevented me from seeing the little joys in life like Brinkman began to see. The little things in day to day life can sometimes make you the happiest. I challenge you, my reader, to do the same because not everyone is promised a tomorrow.
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