Tomorrow morning I will be heading out to the Montreal Weekend to End Breast Cancer for the 6th year in a row. The feelings have already taken me over. My heart is already feeling heavy and my eyes are already holding back tears.
6 years ago, I lost my sister to cancer.
I keep shifting from anger to acceptance, back and forth.
6 years have passed and yet it feels like it all happened yesterday. The emotions are still so fresh.
Time heals they say…
But in my case I feel as though every year that passes my emotions get stronger. I grow older and therefore understand more and more about the impact that this reality has.
It is only after having a husband that I understood the impact of this reality on a husband.
It is only after becoming a parent that I could merely understand the impact of this reality on a mother or a father.
It is only after reaching 30 that I could imagine how it would feel to know that you will only live 31 years.
I’m still not sure of the lesson life was out to teach us but, at this price, it must be an important one.
All I can say is that we should all be grateful for having the opportunity to live this life.
I am grateful every day, and I feel like I owe it to myself and to my sister to make the most out of this life.
Tomorrow is about hope.
Let’s make that Hope and Gratitude.
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