"C Word".
It was the moving story of a young women and her family, who having been diagnosed with breast cancer, embarked on the torturous road of treatment.
One of the strengths she found to get through this was by writing a daily blog to set down her hopes and fear, her frustrations and triumphs so they were not bottled up inside.
Writing is cathartic. There are so many events of which we have no control but in which we have an interest and writing about them and what we think about them, has the effect of going beyond the passive into a state of some sort of partial interaction. By publicising at least one point of view we hope that it will get others to think.
How often one comes across the expression "I can't be bothered", or its modern equivalent
"I can't be asked".
It's an expression of passivity and withdrawal, it means that you are only interested in things that effect you directly, the rest has no meaning and carries no weight.
The world beyond our personal experience is full of richness and can teach us a lot, not least about ourselves as we search for meaning
This women was dying and like most people in that situation she had no parallels to give her guidance but in writing and focusing her mind as she wrote it became clearer, the path less a minefield, easier to negotiate.
Eventually she published her blog in the form of a book which became a best seller and an inspiration to people in a similar situation.
Blogs or writing of any kind is the slow motion working of the mind and given we all have one, it is fascinating to explore the whys and wherefores of our prejudice or our optimism as, as the bard says, we pass this way but once !!
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