r/cancer 3d ago

Patient Annoyed at calling it a fight?

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.

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u/PalpitationLivid3766 2d ago

Some people feel better talking like that. Some of us find all that mushy stuff silly, or gross. All of that "together" shit they pawn for various things. I have no interest in being "together" with random people I don't know, stay away from me lol i'll be together with my friends and family. That's just a con to get you to do what they want. The same reason Subaru uses "love" in all their commercials- its just a ploy to get suckers to buy cars. They don't give a single shit about love or anything else lol. Cancer is abnormal cells that don't stop growing. Its a mistake our bodies make and it kills a lot of us, at which point we are dumped in a hole or incinerated and by ~50 years later no one will ever know or care that we lived. Soft language grosses me the fuck out, people's skin is about 1/10th as thick as it should be.