#levensmotto

The title actually immediately says my life motto: 'Hope makes life'. They sometimes say that hope is a very powerful word. I never really believed this. I mean, a word is just a word, right? And simultaneously? The moment you end up in a situation where you have to let go of everything in life that you hold dear, then suddenly words take on a completely different meaning, a completely different load in my case.

Where I used to see the word hope only as a word, for me the word hope suddenly became my life motto after the diagnosis of cervical cancer in August 2022. A tough trajectory was started. A trajectory with chemo treatments and surgery to save my intense desire to have children.

You might imagine that in a situation like this' hope 'suddenly there is a word that will play a meaning in your life? For me, this word certainly did that. And how?

People around me tried to reassure me over and over again by saying that everything would be okay. But how could they know that? They didn't have cancer. They no longer had a desire to have children. They weren't in my shoes. They didn't know how awful much sorrow I had every time someone told me that everything would be okay.

Pfff, it made me despondent, distraught. I wrote letters to myself and yes, also to the cancer. This made it easier for me to put the situation into perspective. That brought me 'hope'. And that hope became my footing, my #levensmotto