bill of health, there is a rubber-band snap back to yourself, and “you’re good!” It’s not just that we expect people to snap back, but we do them the This Pop Pop Doesn’t Play When It Comes To His Grandkids And His Cowboys Shirt Also,I will get this disservice of projecting a hero’s journey arc on to their recovery. The survivor’s journey and hero’s journey are often conflated. When people are cured, we expect them to return better and braver and wiser for what they’ve been through. We call them inspirations and that comes from such a well-intentioned place, but, for me, there was a sense of cognitive dissonance. Everyone was congratulating me on being done, and I felt a sense of expectation, given that I had survived, especially when so many of my cancer friends hadn’t, that I should not just be living, but I should be somehow living a more beautiful, more meaningful life. That was a lot of pressure on someone who was physically wrecked and who was
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emotionally struggling with the This Pop Pop Doesn’t Play When It Comes To His Grandkids And His Cowboys Shirt Also,I will get this grief of losing not just my friends and a relationship, but losing notions of who I might be. For example, just in terms of motherhood, my cancer left me with all kinds of short and long-term side effects, one of them being infertility, and I was sad and I was angry and I didn’t feel inspiring or brave. You recently wrote on Instagram that, going through cancer for the second time, “I don’t yearn for accomplishments, professional or personal. What I want is time. I want to…remember all the shapeless days, away from my phone and work, when I was truly present with my friends and family and the company of self.” The first time, I think you were working furiously? Am I remembering this right, that you were in the hospital and you were on deadline for The New York Times? What changed? The biggest contrast for me is the
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