Day 3 - Cancer Quotes and Ghosts

It was a perfect winter day. Blue skies, and a crispness to the air. I walked about 5 km. I felt so great. How could I be sick? There must be a mistake!
 :-(

I read a lot on-line at different sites for cancer treatments and surgeries.
The American Cancer Society seem to be the most credible.

So many cancer people blog. I think it is a good medicine. I know that when I blog, I can tell it 100% like I see it. I feel free to say what I feel, because those that matter to me won't care what I say, and those that do care, don't matter to me.

There are many good quotes to bring out the realities of having cancer. They help to....Hmmm... To what.... To bring me to realize the indisputable and irreversible fact of the disease.

Some good quotes are:

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right"

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."

"Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it. That's true.... If it wasn't for the downside."

 Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.

I am not this hair,
I am not this skin,
I am the soul that lives within.
~Rumi

And my favourite:
Don't go there, till you get there.

There are also a few blogs that mention "ghosting". It is when a friend just disappears as soon as they find out you have cancer. It is like they were just a dream, just a ghost. You thought they were there, but they are just a memory now.
 Most ghosts are people that do not want to be reminded of their own mortality. Your very presence reminds them that this could happen to them tomorrow. They refuse to believe that. They must remove the thought of you, from their reality. 
 
 I don't believe in re-incarnation, but it sure seems that there are "New Souls", and "Old Souls". When I first read the teachings of Jesus, and Buddha, I thought, "But I already know that." It is like my morality and ethics come from somewhere else, and are in me to the core.  Maybe that is why I am not a religious person. I already think and act the way religion is trying to teach people to think and act. Religious teaching are truisms, just stating the obvious. Some people don't instinctively know these things.  These people really do need religion, and it is a good thing for them. 
 
 I believe ghosting to be a sign of a "Young Soul". A soul just starting on the path. We are all on the same path, just at different places along it. So let them continue to grow at their own pace, wherever they are on the path.
 I do not need to forgive the "ghosts", because there is nothing to forgive. They are not wrong, or mean.
 
 Hopefully some people  just starting on the path will meet up with an "Old Soul" to help guide them.  "Young Souls" seem to seek out "Old Souls". They are learning about the Universe, and the way that quantum physics, Buddhism, Prime Numbers and God are really just different perspectives of the same thing.   Some "Young Souls" are now “ghosts” to me, because of my cancer. Some "Young Souls" are learning at a fantastic rate, and are moving along the path quickly.

I am sure that this cancer will be a great teacher to me of "natural truths" and ways of the universe, and it will help me move farther on the path to understanding the universe better.