Cancer
is a heavy word. When we hear that someone has cancer, we would immediately
cringe and feel sorry. We think that cancer is very much like death (in cases
where the type of cancer has no cure); the first is just the longer process. Because
of this, we often associate cancer with military words like “battling” or “fighting,”
as if cancer is our enemy in a war, in this case civil war, inside our body. We
always tell people that they’re brave or that they’re strong and that they will
defeat the cancer in them. I am not saying this is wrong, because I myself
think that we have to battle cancer somehow, but I also think that cancer is
not the only think that we think it is. There are many ways to describe cancer,
but what really is the most appropriate language for it?
In
the podcast, Andrew Graystone wanted to know what language people use when
describing cancer, so he asked around different people who had experienced it.
He found out that not all people think cancer as an enemy. Some people try to
live with it, or in a more interesting phrase, to live alongside it. He also
learned that people have different ways in coping with cancer, and that not all
people see cancer in a very negative way.
I
don’t have cancer and I don’t have close friends or relatives who went through
it, so I cannot really expect all people to fight cancer or to live alongside
it. In the end, I realized that different people have different ways in coping
with cancer, and it is up to them whether they want to see it in a positive
manner or in a negative manner. What’s important is that we live well with it,
and try to live our lives still in the best way we can.
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