Making the choice to get busy living is often difficult for those with cancer, but the choice to start living your best life can be a good one. Each person must decide what that life looks like and when it’s time to start living it.
BY Bonnie Annis
PUBLISHED June 08, 2019
Bonnie Annis is a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed in 2014 with stage 2b invasive ductal carcinoma with metastasis to the lymph nodes. She is an avid photographer, freelance writer/blogger, wife, mother and grandmother.
Walking through the bookstore, I perused the aisles. My goal was to find a good read. Passing through the fiction section led me to rows of motivational books. One title in particular caught my eye – Live Your Best Life Now. I stood in front of the shelves staring intently at the title. Live Your Best Life Now. It was as if the book was commanding me and asking a pertinent question at the same time. Was I living my best life? What was my best life?
Since being diagnosed with breast cancer, my entire life had changed. Nothing was the same. I had no idea what the next day would hold and couldn’t fathom the rest of my life. But as I continued to stare at the spine of the book, I felt I’d received an epiphany. It was time. Time to get busy living a good life, a life of happiness, adventure and health, but not only living a good life, my best life.
When in the midst of battling cancer, it’s hard to see anything other than what’s immediately in front of you. It seems someone or something is always demanding attention. Visits to the doctor, scans and tests, go here, go there, do this, do that…all in an effort to stay alive. Those things can certainly contribute to a better life and they may even eventually lead to a best life, but the bottom line is it will take a lot of work.
Since being diagnosed with breast cancer, my entire life had changed. Nothing was the same. I had no idea what the next day would hold and couldn’t fathom the rest of my life. But as I continued to stare at the spine of the book, I felt I’d received an epiphany. It was time. Time to get busy living a good life, a life of happiness, adventure and health, but not only living a good life, my best life.
When in the midst of battling cancer, it’s hard to see anything other than what’s immediately in front of you. It seems someone or something is always demanding attention. Visits to the doctor, scans and tests, go here, go there, do this, do that…all in an effort to stay alive. Those things can certainly contribute to a better life and they may even eventually lead to a best life, but the bottom line is it will take a lot of work.
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