Tuesday, November 2, 2010

tedtalks: comment on one.

Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived

stacey kramer asks, "Imagine in your head: a gift."
with a promise.
its going to do incredible things for you.

bring your family together
it will make you feel loved and appreciated like never before.
adoration and admiration will overwhelm you.
you will gain a new understanding and trust in your body.
it will give you unsurpassed vitality and energy
you will meet new people, have a healthier life style.
you will get an 8 week vacation of doing absolutely nothing.
you will eat gourmet meals.
receive flowers by the truckload.
you will look so great, people will ask if you had "any work done."
you will have lifetime supply of good drugs.
you will feel challenged.
inspired.
motivated.
with feelings of peace.
health.
serennity.
happiness.

all for 55,000. an incredible deal.
does amazon carry it? does it have an apple logo? is there a waiting list?

yet.
Wait.
stacey wouldnt wish this gift for you.
a gift that profoundly altered her life in ways she didnt expect, in ways that stacey, in time, came to consider gifts.

it is not the physical cancer that is your gift, stacey.
your Experience had a positive result.
prolonging your life.
emphasizing the beauty of it and the life of the nature and people around you.

not everyone is as lucky.