Yes, I decided to start blogging again. But I guess this time is slightly different.
In June 2019, I was diagnose with Stage 4 Lung Cancer. As a non-smoker, at age 44, I was devastated when I received the news. But over the past few months, I have come to accept the fact, and life must go on.
I recently read a book called "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with Lung Cancer at age 35. It is an amazing book, and I will recommend you to read it when you have time. I will probably talk more about this book and what it mean for me in later days. But for now, I will leave you a quote from the book, his words for his daughter:
That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.
- Paul Kalanithi
When Breathing Becomes Air