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Old 02-11-2008, 11:44 PM
Calypso Calypso is offline
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The latest trend (as evidenced by the popularity of books like The Secret)is to focus a lot on how we make things happen, we draw certain kinds of energy to us... I realize that this is meant to be a helpful message that encourages us to be positive and proactive, but I think if we explained everything that simply, we might end up beating ourselves up about all the bad things that come our way. My friend's husband died of lung cancer without ever having smoked. Was he supposed to have drawn that to himself through some personal lacking or issue?
I, too, lost a young family member to cancer. After he died, someone suggested that he must have somehow drawn the illness to him. I just about punched that person. My family member wanted so much to live and fought so hard...the idea of blaming him for his illness just infuriated me.
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Old 02-13-2008, 05:19 PM
SageMother SageMother is offline
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I, too, lost a young family member to cancer. After he died, someone suggested that he must have somehow drawn the illness to him. I just about punched that person. My family member wanted so much to live and fought so hard...the idea of blaming him for his illness just infuriated me.
I totally understand your anger. Statements like that are ignorant and arrogant. I hope this never happens to you again!
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