Annoyed at calling it a fight?

[u/Rachel21321]

Anyone else thankful but also get annoyed when people call you a fighter or this cancer a fight or that you are so brave? I don’t think I am any of those things. I am doing what I need to do to get better. It doesn’t feel like anything I’m really doing is “fighting” or “brave” or even changing the situation aside from making decisions. It feels like these steps I take either work or they don’t but not through much conscious fault of my own. To me it just feels like this shitty thing to hopefully get through.

[u/flockynorky]

Totally on board with you--I am not fighting at all and find the characterization uncomfortable, I'm just getting on with being alive while I can. The problem I have with it is, if I'm not fighting, should I be? Am I not doing enough? What about those who really felt they fought hard, but lost, and here I am not fighting and yet, for now, still alive? Some kind of survivor's guilt, I guess. Cheers to all the fighters out there, though!