About trying to keep cancer at bay with a healthy lifestyle

Background

• I've had an experience of cancer myself, as has son-at-home. 
• I had surgery and he had chemotherapy. 
• I've read a couple of books about it. 
• I've read articles and have watched and listened to various programmes over the years. 

• The following are the thoughts and ideas I've gleaned from all that.
• I noted them down for someone who was dealing with the after-effects of breast cancer. 
• I thought they might be of interest to others so have decided to jot them down here.

About cancer

• Cancer is our own cells behaving badly.
• We can try to do everything which might help our bodies to get and keep these overactive cells in order.
• We can try to have a calm and steady lifestyle and eat healthily. 
• I have posted a separate piece on healthy eating.

About learning to appreciate the value of little things

You need to have a blister on your toe
before you appreciate
the wonder of a sticking plaster!

About 'peddling our wares' with care

The more we 'peddle our wares', 
the less valuable they may become.

Let us learn to treasure ourselves as precious vessels
which contain our inner beings,

Let us only allow those to drink from them,
who will value their contents as they should.

About 'going senile'

I've heard it said
that if you think you might be,
you probably aren't!

Let's hope that's true.

About falling over

The only people who never fall over
are those who never walk.

About a possible secret of life

One of the secrets of life may lie in knowing 
that, to paraphrase 'Manuel', of Fawlty Towers fame, 
'"We know nothing!"

Of course, in reality, we all know 'something'
but in the great scheme of things,
all our knowledge is but a drop in the ocean.

It must surely be efficacious and humbling
to constantly remind ourselves of the above.

About letting go of the past

If we cannot let go of the past,
we cannot take hold of the present,
let alone, the future.