I am pretty sick of friends who are so desperate for attention they post bits and pieces on Facebook telling everyone how much cancer sucks and to "repost this if you agree." We ALL know cancer sucks and no amount of copying posts makes anyone know it any less, nor does it fix a daggone thing. These are typically the same folks who are deeply, profoundly impacted by the disease due to the fact that their friend’s sister’s mother’s mother has breast cancer. Here’s a thought – get enough of a life that distant acquaintances’ diseases don’t cause you such anguish — surely you can find some anguish that actually belongs to you.
Granted, you get to be upset if you have family member or a dear friend who is sick, but you don’t get to make it about you. Someone else’s cancer isn’t about you, so you don’t get to ride around on the super-cool bandwagon called "Hey, this person I know has cancer, how sorry do you feel for me?" No one is going to throw a parade in your honor because you’re just so brave, "dealing with it all." Have I mentioned that you should maybe get a life of your own?
Oh, and as a complete aside — I’m also sick to death of pink ribbons and pink KitchenAid mixers and pink scarves. Guess what? Pink M&M’s haven’t cured ONE WOMAN of breast cancer. Not even if you buy ALL of them. Not even if you buy all of the M&M’s, mixers, scarves and ribbons. Not even if you eat all of the pink M&M’s in cookies you mixed in the pink mixer while wearing all of the scarves and ribbons at the same time. Not even then.
