Wonderfully said 😇
“Tomorrow marks two years since I completed my final round of chemo.
As a cancer survivor, I’m still often asked—especially by people who’ve never faced cancer themselves—“What did you learn from your experience?”
But here’s the thing: anyone who’s walked through cancer already knows the answer.
So instead, I often turn the question around and ask:
“What did YOU learn from my cancer?”
Because if you’re lucky enough to have never endured this disease, I hope you’ve still taken something away from witnessing it. I hope you’ve learned that people don’t get cancer because they’ve done something wrong. Cancer doesn’t discriminate. It could just as easily be you.
I hope you’ve learned that cancer doesn’t magically end when treatment does—that healing takes far longer, and scars go far deeper than what’s visible.
Maybe it’s taught you to be a little more compassionate. To hold less judgment.
To slow down and live in the now. To give more than you take.
To truly appreciate the small joys and your health.
To stop sweating the small stuff.
To show your body the respect it deserves.
To value privacy, connection, and presence over appearances and possessions.
To understand that a full life looks different for everyone—and that’s okay.
So please… stop asking survivors what we’ve learned.
Maybe it’s time the rest of the world starts learning from us.
We may not be able to erase the stigma or rewrite every misconception, but as survivors, we carry a truth that unites us. We are not statistics. We have faced death, and still—we live. We carry the weight of that knowledge, those scars, and that strength… every single day.
And we will continue to survive. 💪✨”