When you spend much time at a cancer hospital, you see all kinds of people. You see the ones who have cancer with the knowledge that their cancer is 100% curable. You also see some of the most unfortunate ones too. One man sitting there with his wife was talking to the nurse about his feeding tube. The acid from his stomach was coming out and irritating the skin around it. The nurse gave instructions of how to rectify that, while trying to get him to take more cans of nutrients. He does two cans a day but needs to have four. She was trying to talk him into taking at least three a day. Each time he does a can of nutrients, it takes about four hours because of his low tolerance. Can you imagine spending your life with a drip bag connected to a feeding tube 12 hours a day?
And there I was sitting there prior to that, feeling a little bit sorry for myself. Although chemotherapy was doing no good, and my tumor was too large for regular radiation, I still have a good chance of getting rid of my cancer with the cyber knife radiation. So I consider myself pretty blessed.
You know it's easy to feel sorry for yourself when there's no one else around worse off than you are. But as each one of us look around the world, it's easy to find someone much worse off than we are ourselves.
We sat around our homes cool in the summer, and warm in winter. We complain about the bills, and complained about having to pay them. We complain about the grocery bill, and how much groceries costs. We definitely complain about gas prices. But we forget about all the people who have lost their homes, and are living in tent cities. We forget about all the homeless families with nowhere to go. And indeed many with small children. And yet we still sit around and complain about our little bitty nothings.
Will we ever learn? I think not. We are humans beings and for some reason being human means that we only think about ourselves and our families and the people that we love. We tend to forget about all those people that are so unfortunate.
God please change us, is my prayer. Help us be more sensitive and caring to other people and for other people, without it being thrust in our faces. Help each one of us not to be so self absorbed that we don't notice all the beautiful people around us.
Until next time, God bless and God save.