Bobo
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- Mar 25, 2008
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Don't know that I'd really market this one as a solution but I found Cancer to be a great pick me up. Ever since I got the word that I was 100% cured I've been even more annoyingly optimistic than the average person.
Thought about this a bunch over the past year, while I was fighting cancer and surgical complications and a custody battle while we were having some financial issues I just knew it would be OK and I was pretty serene through it all.
The more I think about it the more I realize it's about confidence (as opposed to arrogance). I've been through a LOT on more than one occasion in life and I've always been able to work through it by sheer force of will. I think it's because I was never naturally gifted at anything but I've always been good at a lot of things and once I dig in and decide to do something I'm either too stupid or too stubborn to stop.
After surgery last summer I set a goal: it was time to do my first 100 mile bike ride, in Texas, in August. They call the event Hotter'n Hell Hundred. ...most people train for six months for that and do it on a nice carbon road bike. I trained for four weeks once the doc gave me a release and did it in a mountain bike, LOL. Insanity? maybe, at that time I needed an outlet for the frustration and maybe a little rage and took it out on the bike, I wore the pedals off the damned thing and proved to myself that no, I will NOT be stopped by silly shit.
They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Not only is that true, but it also gives you the confidence that this too shall pass and you can work your way out of the mess. LOL, OK, and cancer just pissed me off - being pissed off has value at times.
Sorry to ramble, I think through the keyboard at times. My point is that you need perspective, the largest challenge you ever faced down is your bar for what constitutes a 'big problem'. Clear enough of those bars and you just learn to stomp on the little things and go on with your day.
Thought about this a bunch over the past year, while I was fighting cancer and surgical complications and a custody battle while we were having some financial issues I just knew it would be OK and I was pretty serene through it all.
The more I think about it the more I realize it's about confidence (as opposed to arrogance). I've been through a LOT on more than one occasion in life and I've always been able to work through it by sheer force of will. I think it's because I was never naturally gifted at anything but I've always been good at a lot of things and once I dig in and decide to do something I'm either too stupid or too stubborn to stop.
After surgery last summer I set a goal: it was time to do my first 100 mile bike ride, in Texas, in August. They call the event Hotter'n Hell Hundred. ...most people train for six months for that and do it on a nice carbon road bike. I trained for four weeks once the doc gave me a release and did it in a mountain bike, LOL. Insanity? maybe, at that time I needed an outlet for the frustration and maybe a little rage and took it out on the bike, I wore the pedals off the damned thing and proved to myself that no, I will NOT be stopped by silly shit.
They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Not only is that true, but it also gives you the confidence that this too shall pass and you can work your way out of the mess. LOL, OK, and cancer just pissed me off - being pissed off has value at times.
Sorry to ramble, I think through the keyboard at times. My point is that you need perspective, the largest challenge you ever faced down is your bar for what constitutes a 'big problem'. Clear enough of those bars and you just learn to stomp on the little things and go on with your day.