You Are More Than This Chapter

When illness enters a life, it tries to take up the whole page.

Conversations revolve around it.
Plans bend around it.
Energy gets assigned to managing it.

It can begin to feel like the only story being told.

But it isn’t.

You are not a diagnosis.

You are a person who happens to be walking through one chapter that includes it.

There are still preferences you hold.
Memories that shaped you.
Dreams that didn’t disappear just because something hard arrived.

Cancer can influence your days.

It does not own your identity.

It does not erase who you are.

This chapter may be intense.

It may be demanding.

But it is not the whole book.

And you are still the author of who you are becoming.