Oct 07
22
Following your dreams?
What would you be doing right now if you were told you had pancreatic cancer or some other type of cancer and only had a few months to live?
The question seems to be coming up a lot in the past few days. I started thinking about it last week with “Gray’s Anatomy” show in which they told the wrong patient that she had terminal cancer and didn’t have long to live. What did she do? Quit her job, broke up with her boyfriend, gave up her apartment (with parking which in Seattle is unheard of!) and was off for the adventure of her life until they told her they made a mistake.
Then today on Oprah, she had Dr. Oz talking about death and featured this guy Randy Pausch
who was told just over a year ago that he had pancreatic cancer and now supposedly only has a few months to live. I was actually confused after seeing him on Oprah. He didn’t say much about trying any alternative treatments and if he really had any hope. The show made him seem like he was so calm and peaceful and it was just as usual except he was going to die in a few months. He did achieve alot of the things he dreamed about throughout his life. He is a college professor and he gave his “last class speech” which you can see in full on Google Videos.
Dr. Oz also mentioned something about healing and that it doesn’t necessarily mean that healing will allow him to live. Where do we get things like that? I sometimes think we are just trying to come up with something that sounds good so that we can go on – so that we can make meaning about life and a situation like this.
But what the question is really is ‘what would you do if you had only a few months to live?
How can we live every day with that feeling so we don’t miss anything and can live as fully as we can? Or are we supposed to really live like that?
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