Our childhood days are filled with playing, eating, talking about more playing, and enjoying things that we like to do. None of us grasp the concept of time in our youth. As we age, time becomes more valuable to us and we understand the concept of time slightly better.
For those who must endure cancer though, the concept of time is wholly realized. For us, time is a crash course lesson in living and dying. A cancer patient doesn’t know if there will be a tomorrow, and the future is uncertain in a way that the average person doesn’t comprehend.
A major cancer charity was founded over 100 years ago with the promise that the organization would cease once a cure for cancer was found. A century ago, and there’s still no cancer cure! How many people do you suppose have died of cancer during that hundred years? How many people have mourned the loss of a loved one? How many tears have been shed?
Each year, there are galas and events to raise money to cure cancer. There are research foundations, each independent from the other; and they all cry for more money. I’ve personally seen pink ribbon cakes in October for breast cancer awareness; and major corporations are now involved in the war on cancer because it’s chic and lucrative to support cancer awareness.
And still, there’s no cure for cancer!
A friend died of cancer in 1992. Just before his death, he told me that he’d “hung on” to life because he believed that there will be a cure in his lifetime. That was over 30 years ago.
Isn’t it time to end cancer now? Please make your friends and neighbors aware that we have a war and cancer is the enemy.
