When Pandora opened the box that let out all the world's ills and woes. The last thing at the bottom of the box was hope.
One of the running themes with the new Spiderman 2 movie is hope. Spiderman represents hope to the city of New York. At the end of the movie, I was watching the credits and crying. I was sitting there realizing how many people were trying to give me hope, by being as positive as they can in the face of something horrible.
To say "I have cancer" is a statement that I have been treating lightly. The emotional toll does take its pound of flesh, simply because it needs to be recognized. While I do recognize that I need to deal with the emotions. I don't have the time for some of it. There are other times when I need to put everything to one side because I need to be strong for others.
Such is life.
What happens when the panic, a nervous break down and growing up meet at a dinner for coffee. Also... mainly for now.. to let everyone know what is going on in my head and how much I could not be doing this without them.
