Name: How to Live a Life of Gratitude | Jake Bailey | Goalcast
Uploaded: 2021-06-16T02:17:20.000Z
Duration: 4 min 34 s
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Past simple

- I began to experience some pretty sharp pain

Spoiler alert, it was not just toothache.

I lost feeling in the lower half of my face,

I had never felt so sick in my whole life.

In rather spectacular and dramatic fashion,

I started throwing up blood on my mom's carpet

for maximum, kind of horror-movie gore-style effect.

presenting the most aggressive form of cancer in the world.

I was given two to three weeks to live without treatment,

and not necessarily a guarantee of life either way.

Believe me, I was never going to be the kid that got cancer.

And apparently the cancer was now doubling

You are told that everything you'd been promised

since you were a child; the house, the family, the job,

You're told that the next months, the laughs, the parties,

the classes, the times with your friends,

they will never happen because you will be

in a hospital bed, fighting for your life.

the things which your foundation is built upon;

the times with your family, the embrace of your girlfriend,

Or when you look into the eyes of your parents

and you realize that they are dying just as much

fighting the biggest battle you will ever fight,

Instead, I asked that if this was going to be the thing

that killed me, that I faced it with strength.

If it was going to kill me, it would do it on my terms,

Not wanting to let fear dictate my death anymore

But no, no way, there was not a chance in hell

Along the way, I learned some pretty good lessons.

Live each day with passion and pride to your very fullest,

Every day that I live is another one longer

than I was supposed to, and that spurs me on.

However, the most important thing that this has taught me

Taking everything day by day allows you to focus

to find the little bits of light in the darkness,

because sometimes they will be all that you have left.

Yes, I might have a spinal injection of chemo today,

but there's something good on TV tonight.

Yes, I might have my head in a soak bucket right now,

but I'll never feel this sick again in my life.

That's something I remind myself of each day,

and it makes every day that little bit better.

But that thing that people are really prone to doing

for people whose situations they cannot change.

What you really need to do is be grateful for the people

in your life, and for your ability to live that normal life.

There's no excuse to not appreciate life fully.

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How to Live a Life of Gratitude | Jake Bailey | Goalcast

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