Yes, I survived cancer but that doesn't define me
I
have watched this ted talk of Devra Harvis. She is a chaplain who has a
regular contact with cancer patients because she works in a hospital.
One day she was diagnosed with cancer and she overcame the illness
through treatment. In this speech Devra says that she wouldn't define
herself as a cancer survivor. She explains we should claim our traumas.
They shouldn't be more than experiences that we have to overcome.
Another thing she realized as a result of her disease is that nobody can
tell us how we will feel,in other words, each experience has a meaning
and this meaning is completely personal.
Fortunately, I haven't
suffered a trauma of such great magnitude. However, I agree with her. I
believe that this kind of experiences are important in our life because
they affect us strongly, but they don't define us, as she says on the
video.
Julia Boronat
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