This might be a bit of a hot take but I need to put this somewhere and I feel like I’m struggling.
There’s a lot of stuff I wasn’t allowed to do as a kid because I could get hurt… there wasn’t really anything wrong with me to suggest I needed to be wrapped in bubble wrap - I was a capable kid, athletic and healthy… but I grew up in a house where I’d always here ‘don’t do that, you’ll get hurt’ from wanting to go skating, to making eggs myself.
Now I’m a young adult with cancer, and I can safely say I resent that part of my life more than anything. I was never allowed to learn to drive, there were no opportunities… and it trapped me at home where I wasn’t allowed to cook eggs without a ‘you’ll get hurt if you keep doing this.’
Getting cancer has given me more experiences than my parents would have ever let me do.
I’d rather have taken a few more risks as a kid and lived more.