WIN the day, make our own history!
“Today 6 years ago I woke up from my first surgery. Back then I read on the internet that I have a 5% chance to survive the coming three years.
In the meantime I did not only outlive this statistic, but I also learned a very important lesson that I feel like sharing here today on this symbolic day:
Do no get hooked up by numbers.
No matter how they look like, it will not be helpful. Because if they tell you that you have very good chances to survive you will build up a lot of expectations that can easily be crashed once life makes an unexpected turn. And it will make such turns. Sure, promising statistics can calm you and give you a sense of false security, but as we all know there is not such thing as ‘security’ when it comes to health.
On the other side if the numbers look bad, you probably will have directly an emotional break down which will destroy the present moment. So both way you gonna lose.
What I learned in the past 6 years going through many ups and downs is the following: I am not a number. Life is not a number. Life is wonderful and unpredictable at the same time. Spending too much time thinking about statistics is neither increasing my quality of life nor giving me a reliable prediction of what my future will look like. Because in the end nobody knows. And that has nothing to do with cancer. In the end good things will happen and bad things will happen. To all of us. The only thing that matters is how we react to it and that we make sure they do not dictate every aspect of our lives.
So today morning I was biking the same mountain as 6 years ago before my first surgery as a symbolic act to embrace life rather than percentages! .”