I stumbled upon a blog today, that I was not even
looking for really. It is a blog started by a lady named Daria, who struggled
with breast cancer. She was writing on her blog, until she no longer could and
her kind husband took over for the last couple days. She passed away on January
22 2011 struggling to fight the battle of breast cancer.
This blog evoked strong emotions for the most
obvious reasons. It was a wonderful lady writing about her experiences and
struggles, but also her fight ending in tragedy.
All the commenters who posted throughout have been
supportive and there had been so signs of negativity. There is such strong
pathos in the last comments done by not only Daria, but her husband Dan. People
are very compassionate, which inevitably is what pathos really is; evoking
strong emotion of compassion.
The comment that stuck out to me the most is when
she posted on her “things to do today”. To put myself in her shoes, knowing
that my daily fight was to accomplish to “survive” each and everyday, breaks my
heart. No one should ever feel this way, but is something that is such a
reality for the people in our world who struggle with cancer or any other
illness that is so common.
The last visual you included was VERY powerful Angie! The context in which the author was getting her message across was very unique. The relaxed nature of a "To do list" states easy mindless tasks that need to be completed. What the writer of this blog has done was took the irony of the fact that she has these things on her daily to do list. People who are not struggling with a detrimental illness would not understand the commonality of these choices for her. That being part of her every day life. What a powerful blog you came across.
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