Friday, March 27, 2009

Hi all-
Since Luke cant have visitors try and send him messages on here, on his facebook page, or using that MD Anderson site from when he was first in the hospital (https://www2.mdanderson.org/sapp/contact/message.cfm) this is where you can type him a message and it gets hand delivered to his room. Even if you are a friend of "the parents" as he calls them it is so nice for him to have encouragement and such a vital time in his illness.
Someone will update with any and all news as it comes in!!
Thanks
Kendall

1 comment:

  1. Hey, I'm a stranger. Yet, in reality, should we ever see someone as a stranger- or ought we see them as someone that is full of future possibility? You don't know me, I don't know you. I care, and I support you. There is a book that came to mind, something that might not at first seem purposeful, and may potentially be shocking, nevertheless- I think it's something that could serve you immensily. It's called 'Man's Search for Meaning'- by Victor Frankl. I'm not just throwing it out there as a side comment, I'm suggesting it as something that you should take serious consideration in reading.


    I do not know what it means to be in your eyes, and see life through your perceptions. Yet, I do think that there is a Truth that we are seeking, and that is why I decided to share this with you. I don't want to presuppose your emotional state, or views. But I do want to deposit here, that I suggest to you- to never think of death as forbodding, for in reality, you will never experience, it. As in the story of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy- be aware of the immense beauty, of what you are experiencing, and allow yourself to realize that fear only holds you back from experiencing what you truly do have- once you realize that you're alive and full of choice- of the ability to live life in the way that you think life ought to be lived, then you cannot feel purposless- do not fear. For fear is not real, unless you give it the power to act as a strong illusion, one that keeps you from reality.

    Even if, it seems at first glance, or possibly, through agonizing circles of questions in your mind, I would say that even though things appear one way- it is quite possible that you are fully able to live life in a way that you find compeltely meaninful and interesting, and in that way which you find is 'to live life right'. It's just going to be a matter of drive and perspective, live through all odds, in the Now. Laugh when laughing feels real, cry, if crying feels real- yet remember that to adhere to fear- or even to pretend that you do not feel something that you really do feel- is only giving power to that thing, and it is that which will hide from you you your true senses- of your true self. I hope that all of this was meaningful to you.


    P.s. This isn't necessarily derived from the book, it is an accumulation of ideas, and of experiences.

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