“We need to teach ourselves how to stop fighting against everything, because there’s always going to be things [to fight] against. There’re so many things to fix, and to cure, and to change. If we’re not fighting against illness, if we’re not fighting against disease, if we’re not fighting against poverty, if we’re not fighting against… just loneliness… Like, the basic innate loneliness of being a human being, or the great kind of sadness that comes with being a human being. If we’re not fighting against all of that, then we’re inevitably gonna have to fight against death.
And the crazy thing is we’re gonna lose that battle.
So it doesn’t matter if we win everything else, there’s always gonna be this great big elephant in the room, but it doesn’t matter what we do in the end - we are gonna loose.
And how do you go forwards with that notion? Because I’ve known that, ever since I was a kid, I knew that I was gonna die faster than everyone else. I wasn’t doing anything in my life for any kind of long-term result for any kind of, you know, grandiose solution to anything. I was doing it because I was fascinated by life. I wanted to give something, I wanted to be a part of it. I knew I was gonna lose in the end… and we all are. Against every single battle, we ever pick, we’re gonna lose.
So what happens if we stop fighting against everything and we teach ourselves how to fight for something. How to fight for lives that we’re proud of because that’s the only way that the medical system is gonna actually empower patients to take care of themselves, to step up to the plate to do their treatments, to do what they need to do in life. As if they feel like they’re fighting for something bigger than just their own health.
We’re all fighting for something bigger than just the demons that we’re battling.”
- Claire Wineland, Clairity In Medicine It’s Just A Disease
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