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[quote=Anonymous]Dear OP, I just gave a speech on this in toastmasters. I said my diagnosis was a gift in disguise. I'd been living a good life, but feeling like I had nothing to lose really cleared up a lot of things for me - who I wanted to be with and what I wanted to focus on.

But this doesn't come right away of course. It comes after processing everything. I hope your diagnosis is treatable and even if it isn't that you can learn to live with it. The best thing for me at that time was to ruthlessly curate who I would hang out with. If I didn't feel good with people, they were out. I only had so much energy to care about people who are always complaining, spoiled, angry. I wanted more time to exist with my kids and needed emotional energy to cope. I read a lot of books - a friend of mine wrote a book about her cancer life advice and subsequently passed away.

I don't view it as relentless optimism but a fresh outlook on life. It's precious, now do whatever the hell you want.[/quote]

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