Tuesday, October 1, 2013

If I Loved You:

If I loved you, I would tell you this:
     I would tell you that for all you know I have cancer. And that is why you should be kind to me. I would tell you that for all you know I have cancer that has spread into my liver and my bones and that now I understand there is no hope. If I loved you, I would say: you shouldn't be so hard on us. On me and on Sam.
    Because it may not even be just the cancer.
~Robin Black, If I Loved You
If you love someone and you have a fatal illness you tell them about your impending death because you owe them the truth. For anybody else, it doesn't matter.

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    1. True, but it's more imminent for some, than for others.

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  2. No, all our deaths are just a heart beat away, we just don't know which one will be our last. A terminally ill person or a healthy athlete, no one can know which breath will be their last.

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  3. Statistically though, you know there is a high probability that you'll be here next year. Others are much less certain.

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