C\u00e9dric H\u00e8le Institute<\/a>, the Flemish Institute for Psychosocial Oncology. The theme of the day was \"(Existential) Anxiety and Hope in Cancer\" and was entertainingly explained by Dr. Simon Wein, a specialist in the field in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt is quite a challenge to turn such a theme into telling scenes that have the right ratio of laughter to seriousness. Today it was even more so for me because I knew someone in the audience who is close to my heart and whose husband himself is currently in such a patient position. So playing a scene about a bone marrow transplant or about a partner who doesn't want to say goodbye then has a double meaning. And, as she confirmed to me herself, listening to a lecture is still just further removed than seeing it played out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Theater touches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
But it was a fine performance, with fine reactions, and I really felt that we had been able to contribute. And that did well. Meaningfulness was also a theme that was addressed and such a performance connects very much with that meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We're a few hours in and I was just about to go to sleep because tomorrow we have to be in Brussels early for a training on diversity and improvisational theater. I check my mail one last time. And there a message I had been dreading for a while - or hoping it wouldn't come. A good friend and colleague's husband finally got clarity on his symptoms: a glioma in the brain ... quite an explanation ... surgery and radiation. And I read that they are assuming the most positive scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A subjective perspective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
That email is today's entire Chi event in a nutshell. Existential fear and hope in a few lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hope is a subjective perspective of the future, I learned today; it has nothing to do with reality. After all, we can always hope for a miracle. But perhaps it is good to jump off that merry-go-round of life and live day by day; replace grand hopes with looking forward to; and reflect on the life we have lived.
And maybe we shouldn't just do that when we have cancer, I think now. Because actually that never hurts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today reality and fiction were very much intertwined for me. It affected me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Theater touches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life touches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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