Moments of Clarity

Ever since my diagnosis, I have been having a few moments of mental clarity.

While I always thought it was cliche, don't sweat the small stuff. And 99% of it is small stuff.

Cherish your loved ones every day. Tomorrow is not promised.

So now that I have the cliche bullshit out of the way, I want to share this story with you.

I recently told this woman I have a form of cancer. He whole face changed. Not that she was being rude or anything to me, but her face softened. Her tone became friendlier.

It wasn't a look of pity, but she was for sure handling me with kid gloves. Not that I am bitching about it - I like when people are nice to me.

But then it dawned on me, why did it take that golf-ball size of news for this woman to go out of her way to be nice to me?

Why can't we all treat each other like we all have cancer every day?

Then I remembered how I was trying to merge onto I-55 North the other day and this woman in a Camaro wouldn't let me over. I flipped her off.

Moment of clarity destroyed.