TIME
This past week was Solis's 3rd anniversary. Three years of writing, of sharing, of supporting, and of (I hope) helping. It feels like a long time, and it also feels like no time.
This strange habit of time is something I noticed after my first year on this journey. When July rolled around again for the first time since I was diagnosed, it simultaneously felt like it had been the longest year of my life and also the shortest. I think it comes down to the amount of change, growth, tumult, and healing that takes place within any given period. The sheer volume of happenings makes the time go so incredibly quickly, but the depth to which things shift and evolve makes you certain that it has to have taken longer for all of that to develop and be realized.
However slow or fast it passes, the one constant thing about time is that it is always ticking by, and one of the most consistent things I've seen in people post-cancer (myself included) is a newfound reverence for this passing. Our grandparents weren't being corny when they said life goes faster than you think, and after cancer, that truth is something I take much more seriously.
You may love every aspect of your life just the way it is, and if that's you, that's fantastic

But I would argue that almost everyone has something left undone on their bucket list, or some change they've been putting off, or some leap they've been on the edge of taking all their life. Ask yourself what that thing is (or things). Reflect on how you want your life to look next week, next year, or in 10 years. Because I have come to see cancer as a second chance, a second chance to start life again, but this time with you in the driver's seat and with the benefit of all the wisdom this journey has taught you and will continue to reveal. No matter the length of that second life, it's a path well worth taking.
My main goal post-cancer was simply to start sharing with the hope of helping others. I didn't know how long it would last and I don't know where it will continue to lead me, but I do know that it makes my heart happy. And I think, if you aren't sure where to start in your life after a diagnosis, focusing on those things that make your heart happy is the best place to begin the adventure. Your heart has likely always known where it has wanted to go, it just often takes something huge like cancer to convince us that it's time to listen.
Thank you for being here, for reading what I write, for sending me lovely emails back, for asking questions, for digging into your healing. That's what it's all about; that's what makes it all worth it. And here's to many more years of sharing and supporting one another!
Happy Healing
