Chicken Soup for the Soul is one of my favorite book. It has different stories and topics, there's for Mom, Dad, Friends, Teens, Grandparents, all sorts of people. It's something that makes you realize a lot of things specially about Life, it inspires you with stories, motivates you, and encourages you. Indeed it is a powerful book that could help people change their perspective in life.
It has become a habit that whenever I go to a Mall alone, I would stop at some Bookstore and start skimming and scanning the books. I would spend an hour or more reading some of it for free :D. Once I passed by the Inspirational corner and saw this Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book and thought, this would be a nice gift for my cousin, Ate Sharon, since she loves to read and at that time she was also diagnosed with Leukemia. It might help her get some strength and inspiration. One time when we visited Ate at her house, I asked her if she still wants or can read books, she answered she cannot read no more since her eyesight gets blurry already, due to her illness. I decided not to buy the book.
A few months after, my brother was diagnosed with Lymphoma, a cancer in the lymphatic system. I felt so down knowing that my brother, in his young age of 21 has cancer. I asked, why of all sickness, it's cancer? Why of all people, my brother? We were sadden when we find out about my cousin's Leukemia and now my brother with lymphoma. Was this a coincidence? Was this hereditary? Does cancer runs in every blood of every generation in the family? Why us? Why? So many questions, but it boils down to one and the same answer: ACCEPTANCE.
I never thought of buying myself the book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book. I never thought of having the need to read it. Maybe my first Chicken Soup book would be something like that of a relationships, friends, being single. Sort of books that I can relate myself into. But a Cancer Book? Maybe I would buy it for other people but not for myself. Then all of a sudden, I just woke up one morning, wanting to buy one.
And I am so proud that my first Chicken Soup for the Soul book is the one I have: Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book.
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