A few weeks ago someone told me that one of the people at my work was diagnosed with cancer.  The word cancer scares me.  To hear about people having cancer makes me sad because when I think about it, everyone I’ve heard about or read about with it did not survive it.  Cancer seems so agressive to me and it kind of just takes over.  So every time I saw this lady, I felt sad for her.  She didn’t know that I knew and she’d talk and seem normal and I just felt sad.  But she seems just fine.  I saw her today and she told me that she was just diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer.  Yet, she didn’t seem to feel too sorry for myself.  In fact she had a cheerful disposition.  She said that everything was going to be alright, that it was good they caught it early, and that she’s going to do the treatment and while it may be sucky for awhile, she was going to be okay.  That reminded me that people do beat cancer, many people have beat it.  It was good that she was optimistic about things.  And while I was feeling sad for her, I am now thinking that I should be positive too.  So while cancer may be this black cloud for this lady, there is a silver lining because she can beat it.  Every black cloud has a silver lining.