During my reflection I realized that it wasn't that I didn't have anything to say but that the direction of my blog was wrong. I had built the blog with the purpose of updating everyone on my journey and random reflections. The problem was that you the cycles kept repeating themselves and so I felt like I was repeating myself in 3 week cycles. Truthfully I felt like it was sounding like I was complaining and therefore no really adding much value to you the reader. It was because of this I decided to put it on the back burner for a little bit while I reflected on how I could make it better.
While going through this retooling process I realized that the bulk of the readers are not personally going through cancer and therefore don't get a great deal of value from the very specific posts. But I did realize there was a lot of valuable posts that I could write about; living through and learning from personal tragedies. I realized that my battle with cancer was giving me a great insights/lessons into living my life. I also realized that many people don't apply these lessons until they personally go through a personal tragedy. And that is where the light bulb went off. I could begin writing about the lessons and reflections I have gained from this experience so that everyone else can learn from them too. Why wait until it is too late to make changes when you could do it today. I tried out as a test a few posts last week on this topic to see what the feedback has been and it has been resoundingly positive and so my writing fire was reignited and we have today's blog; a mix of updates on my journey and reflections we can all learn from.
Over the past month I also realized is that cancer is one of many personal tragedies we can go through. It could be a near fatal injury, a death of someone very close to us, a severe sickness, etc. I look at a personal tragedy as anything that has fundamentally changed the way we look at life, or as I like to call it "Bursting our bubble". Until something makes us realize our mortality we often live in a bubble of naivete and when the truth of our mortality is thrust in front of us the bubble bursts and we often get very overwhelmed. But collectively as a group we can help each other but adapting the lessons we have learnt from our own personal tragedies to make our lives better. Although the tragedy can take on many different forms the lessons it imparts to us are often very similar. So don't wait until a tragedy to make changes in your life, learn from the experiences of others and make them now so that when the tragedy comes all you are thinking about is getting past it so you can get back to your great life ;) I will continue to post the lessons I am learning from my experience but would love to hear from all of you the lessons you have learnt so that I can pass them along to the group as well; collectively we can all become stronger from each other. So please if anyone has gone through a personal tragedy and has a lesson to impart email me at aaronofford@gmail.com.
I also added a feature to the blog that will show the most recent posts made to my photography site. This way if you like looking at my pictures you only have to check the site when there is new posts. It is located on the right hand side of the blog. Just click the post name and you will be redirected to the pictures. I hope you enjoy :)
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