I am the Hero

  I really wish everyone could understand this. I do not want to belittle what is or was happing to someone, but what you do about it can really make a difference.
 
 Think about it. Most Heroes and Heroines in books and movies start out in a bad place. Look at Katness Everdeen growing up in the least desirable district 12. Look at Harry Potter. Parents dead and he is living under the stairs of a home he is neither welcome or loved in. Do they sit around crying about "poor me"? No. The first chance they have to change their lives comes by and they take it. And they don't spend the rest of their life claiming to be a victim and living off of other's charity because they think they deserve it.

  I have thought about this a lot in regards to my cancer. I could claim it has hurt me too much emotionally to carry on, that it has set me back too much to keep reaching for my goals. But the truth of the matter is I would much rather be the hero of this story, not the victim. I want to be that girl who faced the dragon (a.k.a. cancer) and lived to tell about it. Who fought instead of running and hiding.

 I want to have stories to tell my children so they will be fighters too. Little heroes and heroines in the own right. Until they grow up and face real dragons of their own. I won't be afraid for them then. Because I will know that even though they will face dragons, they will also have heard of brave knights who can defeat them.