Nir, this is impressive writing. It is not only what you are saying but also how you express it. Your writing is in the vein of the stoic, Marcus Aurelius, whose words written centuries ago encouraged readers to make the accommodations to reality.
What he fails to shine the light upon is the laborious gearing needed for one to come to the truth of one’s heretofore unimagined state that now defines him. By elaborating your difficult yet ultimately successful struggle to change those characteristics that once made you you in order to get to the point of acceptance, you have made a contribution to my appreciation of stoicism.
Amor Fati is the ability to love your fate, whatever it is.
Matty the K, thank you for this thoughtful reflection. Being compared to Marcus Aurelius feels both humbling and overwhelming - I'm just a guy trying to make sense of what happened.
You've touched on something important: the space between knowing something intellectually and living it with your whole being. The "laborious gearing" you mention - that's exactly it. It's one thing to read about amor fati, and entirely another to wake up unable to speak and have to choose, again and again, to accept/love that reality.
Maybe the value isn't in having it all figured out, but in sharing the actual process of figuring it out, the stumbling, the small victories, the moments when you fail at your own advice and start over.
Thank you for seeing both the struggle and the contribution in it. And for the prayers - I receive them with gratitude.
When you reboot, you’re not the same being as you were before it. It’s like rereading a book over and over again. If the book is good, you’ll find things you missed with the first read through. It’s the same with us, it’s the same with me. I can see myself BC (before cancer), and AC (after cancer). There are things that I won’t put any energy into cause I don’t want to lose my energy to that action. You make choices and you grow pinch your butt off of a flower and everything below it will go stronger. Thank you for sharing your story, Nir.
Nir, this is impressive writing. It is not only what you are saying but also how you express it. Your writing is in the vein of the stoic, Marcus Aurelius, whose words written centuries ago encouraged readers to make the accommodations to reality.
What he fails to shine the light upon is the laborious gearing needed for one to come to the truth of one’s heretofore unimagined state that now defines him. By elaborating your difficult yet ultimately successful struggle to change those characteristics that once made you you in order to get to the point of acceptance, you have made a contribution to my appreciation of stoicism.
Amor Fati is the ability to love your fate, whatever it is.
Praying for your continued strength.
Matty the K, thank you for this thoughtful reflection. Being compared to Marcus Aurelius feels both humbling and overwhelming - I'm just a guy trying to make sense of what happened.
You've touched on something important: the space between knowing something intellectually and living it with your whole being. The "laborious gearing" you mention - that's exactly it. It's one thing to read about amor fati, and entirely another to wake up unable to speak and have to choose, again and again, to accept/love that reality.
Maybe the value isn't in having it all figured out, but in sharing the actual process of figuring it out, the stumbling, the small victories, the moments when you fail at your own advice and start over.
Thank you for seeing both the struggle and the contribution in it. And for the prayers - I receive them with gratitude.
Chazak Ve’emats, Nir.
When you reboot, you’re not the same being as you were before it. It’s like rereading a book over and over again. If the book is good, you’ll find things you missed with the first read through. It’s the same with us, it’s the same with me. I can see myself BC (before cancer), and AC (after cancer). There are things that I won’t put any energy into cause I don’t want to lose my energy to that action. You make choices and you grow pinch your butt off of a flower and everything below it will go stronger. Thank you for sharing your story, Nir.
Thank you <3