TIME
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The Rhetoric of Cancer
When a man is diagnosed with cancer,
the language commonly used to approach this disease is war metaphors. The
bodies are turned into war zones where cancer is the enemy, medical
professionals as the heroes, and medical treatments as search and destroy processes.
The body fights itself by killing its own unit and its own cells, but there is no
assurance of victory. There are only two options in cancer battle,
whether a man will continue living through medical treatments with the help of
physicians, or a man will die in vain. A diagnosis of cancer for some people
means hopelessness, means the end of world, means a punishment for all their
wrong doings. But for some that are brave, strong, courageous, and with
perseverance, cancer is just a challenge given by the powerful One. A challenge
that must be accepted and must be faced because after all the hardships and the
pains, we learn a lesson and it feels like a light is seen from the deepest
and darkest parts of the earth. A man winning the battle against a cancer is like a
man winning the lottery or finding the most precious
treasures beneath the earth, but sadly it’s just a metaphor. A man never becomes
a millionaire after using all his money to cure his disease. But after all, we
can’t bring our money up there so why not use it to save our life? And sadly,
there are always those who will lose the fight and those that will perish their
life because nothing can stop the disease from making its own masterpiece which
is death. But losing to cancer does not mean that you’re not strong or you’re
not worthy of living on earth. Maybe, there’s nothing we can do and the only
thing to do is accept the truth and to use the remaining days of our life to
cherish the most valuables things in life.
I don’t want to have cancer, not
because I will become poor but because it’s one of the hardest
things to accept. And when someone says that I
lost the battle against cancer, I will personally come back and haunt them. >:)