Lisa Ray Instagram – Let me tell you something I wish more people understood about cancer (Or hard times)
My center of gravity shifted after getting diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in 2009.
A diagnosis is as individual an event as is any human reaction to a life altering experience. The gravitational pull will not always be in the direction of healing. It’s not that simple.
But what I can say today, 13 years later, is a fully realized life is not only possible but perhaps for some – like me- the net result of passing through an experience that makes you face your mortality. That cuts very close to the bone.
Yes.
I am where I am because of it. I would never wish cancer or any serious illness on anyone (thoo thoo) but while we’re here together let me tell you : life is glorious in all it’s shades.
I love this image taken shortly after my stem cell transplant, at a dear friend’s home in Goa, on the eve of celebrating my rebirth.
I am shaken but oddly calm. Not yet wiser but stepping in the direction of grasping something I’d been searching for my whole life. And I’m melting, I can see a few layers sliding off me like a minor landslide.
I’ll never forget this moment, the circle of friends who surrounded me and the inevitability of finding peace in unpredictably.
The most real I’ve ever felt in a photo before or since. A way to immortalize a threshold.
Thank you @anaitashroffadajania @farrokhchothia @vogueindia
I see you in ways you might not even see yourself ❤️
Image credit: @vogueindia | Posted on 05/Nov/2022 19:52:43
