Thoughts about 2022 & living with my cancer

Today is the 2nd of January , I’ve had a really chilled out Christmas and new year with my family. Thanks to Covid it was quiet. 💤

I’ve been thinking about the new year a lot almost totally in a positive way you will be glad to hear, it’s not good going into a new year thinking negatively, that’s not what new years are for, they were made in my opinion to start again if needed.🙏

What’s the point of new year if all you do is carry last year’s burdens in to 2022 that’s why it’s called a NEW YEAR. A time to start afresh. A time to write a new chapter in your book of life. I like to think of the new year like writing a new chapter in the book of life.

             A new chapter

I don’t particularly like new years eve, but I do like the new year. Ask yourself what do you want to change from last year, what do you want to leave behind in last year and there you have your start to that new chapter in your life.

Don’t plan the whole book though just a page at a time or a day at a time in real life. Most of us struggle to write our books if we think to far ahead. We miss the important things that are happening on each page if we focus too much on the whole book.

It’s a mistake to believe than anything in your life can’t be changed. I have cancer which can’t be cured according to my doctor’s . It can be controlled which is great but I don’t accept that, I know it’s not common but as I’ve said many times before in my blog if one single human being on this planet has beaten this type cancer at this stage then why can’t it be possible for me.

Lowering the odds

I have to look at ways of lowering the odds just as anyone does when they want to achieve simething, I’m planning on walking a marathon, what are my chances of doing that, very low at the moment but that’s not going to stop me from trying it’s all just one step or one page at a time in my book.

Walking for prostate cancer uk in January

One thing for sure I’m not going to beat this cancer or walk a marathon by sitting on my arse complaining about all the obstacles that I’ve got just got to get on with it and what a great way to start in the new year by walking a marathon in the month of January , I’ve only got to do in one day what I’ve got 31 days to do it in this January , step by step day by day page by page.

The first line in my story of 2022 is I’m going to, followed by I can next paragraph starts with I will you get my meaning here there are no I can’t or I won’t it’s all about writing a positive page. In fact it starts off with a positive line then a paragraph and then a few more paragraphs and before you know it you have your first page.

It’s 3rd of January, I didn’t feel like going out last night to walk my daily mile for prostate cancer uk , the kids didt fancy it because it was cold and damp and windy, the type of weather that you need to wrap up warm and stay on the couch.

At 8.20pm I started my walk 3.29km later I was back in the warmth of my home. I walked alone held my head up to the cold drizzle and thanked my incredibly lucky stars that I could do this. I was alive and able and that’s all that counts in my world. The feeling of walking on a cold January evening just because I’m alive to do it gives me a power that the cold weather the warm couch and the lonelyness can’t take away.

To be able to do something is a great thing, we all need a purpose in life , to be able to walk is great, for me it’s a blessing and with that blessing it helps to fulfill my purpose to beat cancer see my children grow up walk a marathon go back to work , we all need a purpose in life.

I enjoyed that walk, I didnt even have my ear plugs in to listen to music or audible podcasts and stories. It was quiet and I can’t recall seeing a single person out on the estate last night not even a car driving around, the estate was mine, no birds were singing I heard a shout from a fox 🦊 but nothing more. I walked two laps around the estate, tomorrow I’m walking down to the river.

I go to bed with a good feeling, I tell my cancer this mantra every morning and last thing at night

Every day in every way I’m getting better and better.

Every day in every way I’m getting stronger and stronger.

Every day in every way, my cancer is getting weaker and weaker.