Against my own will, here’s what cancer taught me

I survived bone cancer. Although facing your mortality at 26 isn’t anything I’d wish on anyone, if there was a way to turn the perspective it forces upon you into a potion, I’d bottle it up and hand samples out on every street corner. Keep in mind that the perspective isn’t the same for everyone. Surviving is an experience and its effects vary as much as the people do. For me, these are the two most important lessons bone cancer forced me to learn the hard way: Stop deferring good times. I was twenty-six and had seven years left on […]