the possibilities are endless

I'm inspired by the biological scientist Stephen Jay Gould who was diagnosed with a rare cancer that had a median survival of 8 months. He decided he was going to be in the tail end of the curve... living beyond the 8 months. He died 20 years later of another disease. He had one of the most admirable scientific careers of his era. He lived thirty times longer than the oncologists had predicted. THIRTY TIMES LONGER.

Anything is possible. Everything is possible.

I am reading, among other things, Anti Cancer by David Servan-Scheiber.

At the end of one of the early chapters he talks how in Chinese, the notion of "crisis" is written as a combination of the two characters "danger" and "opportunity." Cancers threat can make it hard to grasp its creative potential.

He says, for him, his illness changed his life for the better, and in a way he never could have imagined, previously to being diagnosed.

I'd like to say the same thing. And I think I can.