The C List by Rachel Bown

Author:Rachel Bown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The C List - Colons, Clinics, Chemo and (Quite a Lot of) Cake: How I Survived Bowel Cancer
ISBN: 9781780287645
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2014-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

I could not help feeling nervous: 2011 had been such a year of change and upheaval that, as New Year’s Eve approached, I felt sure there was still time to pack in at least one more major event.

I suppose I was not the only one who saw 2011 as a year of fear, and I was lucky enough to miss a great chunk of it by turning off the news for at least three months while dealing with my own ‘event of the year’. So much had happened that it was impossible to remember it all. And as I successfully managed to avoid some of the worse incidents, I cleverly decided not to read the annual roundup across the media as I did not want to accidently stumble across something I had missed and had to squeeze in all that worry into a few hours or risk it leaking into a brand new 2012.

On my own micro level, I would like to rewrite 2011 as a year when I learnt the power of love, extreme kindness and generosity, and so I decided to greet the new year with a cheery smile and a plan to be 100 per cent healthier, 50 per cent tidier, 25 per cent slower and 25 per cent more tolerant, because 2012 was not going anywhere until at least 2013 – and that felt a very long time away.

I was pondering if it says something about the English that, despite the richness of our vocabulary which allows us to draw shades of distinction unavailable to non-English speakers, I could find only a couple of words to express thank you. (For the record, Eskimos have 50 words for types of snow and Italians have over 500 names for different types of pasta.) Right at that moment it did not seem in any way enough for me to express my gratitude to everyone who had got me this far and was still looking like they had legs to get me through the rest of the pitiful ‘journey’.

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