“So you’re back then” I said to Cancer
“Yes, you knew I would be…why are you surprised?” Cancer said
“I am not surprised”…I paused “and then again I am. The timescales, the scans, the tests, they all led me to believe that I had actually won, I had beaten you…and even as I type this I know that statement is untrue. I always knew you would be back, but just not today.” I replied.
“After all these years you still don’t fundamentally know what or who I am” quipped Cancer. “I am not a game, a challenge, something to compete with and at the conclusion either to win or loose.”
“I am the fundamental error… I am life and death; I am evolution. Without the error, there can be no change to living things, and without change, there would never have been life. Life has evolved from the simplest substances, over billions of years, into what we are now. Evolution is not perfect, and yet look at what it has produced: beasts, plants, people—a universe of wonder. You see me, ‘Cancer’, as death (and so it will be for you), but the reality is I am the fundamental error that is life.”
I sat back in my chair and thought. ‘Cancers got a bloody cheek. Trying to get the credit for life and evolution’.
The New Normal 