A Different Outlook on Cancer

Jonathan Idolor

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             When I listened to this audio-interview, The Rhetoric of Cancer, I couldn’t help but be at awe at such a different perspective of someone who was diagnosed with cancer. His relation to the treatment of cancer to war on one’s own body and cells really made me think. We say so many times how war is such a poisonous mindset, and yet when thinking of sickness and disease we always aim to kill, destroy, eliminate that which is changing us. It goes without saying that some degenerative diseases really is no one’s dream to be diagnosed with but thinking about cancer and it’s nature, it really makes you think about what or who you’re really fighting against. These are your own cells, to my understanding everyone is born with them; it is only when you have too many cancer cells that they begin to metastasize and take over.

           

            Although a mindset may not remove cancer from someone, it can really change how people act towards it. Instead of scaring people who have cancer we can help them continue to have a healthy and loving lifestyle. None of us has an unlimited time here on earth, an invisible clock ticks for all of us. In the end we all just want to live happy and make the most of our lives. There is no real battle against cancer, just a battle everyone faces everyday to live in the here and now, to accept it, and just be happy. Just because the clock has revealed itself it doesn’t mean you have to stop being happy and living your life to the fullest.

            The interviewee, Andre Graystone says:  “Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to have cancer, but I warn you that when I die, if any one says that I have lost my battle against cancer, I will personally come back and haunt them.”