I met a woman that is staying at the Hope Lodge, too. I'll call her Jane.
Jane is a smoker. And she is going through chemo and radiation for lung cancer. She talked to me about it this week. She said she was just SHOCKED that she got lung cancer. She said her family never gets cancer, they all die of stroke or heart disease. She is still in disbelief that this happened to her.
I so wanted to say to her, "haven't they been teaching you since preschool that smoking causes cancer? Hasn't every single pack of cigarettes you have smoked had a warning label about the dangers?" but I could see she was in denial. She just could not believe that she actually GOT CANCER. The look on her face 24/7 is one of disbelief. How could this happen to her?
As I thought about it, I realized that all of us are often like this. People warn us all through our lives that our behaviors will cause trouble or hardship...but we believe "it will not happen to me." Jane is living proof, it does happen.
Maybe it is time we "read the label" and heed the warnings.
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