writing help: This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. - Help.com

Wow.
I try and live my life to the fullest and take every mistake as a lesson.
She really doesn’t deserve this, no-one does.

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That was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing her wisdom with us. I will say a prayer for her and her family.

I ve had two very good friends die from cancer one from blood cancer one from
breast cancer I have afriend who lost her right breast to cancer my dad has
throat cancer he no longer can talk. They told my dad he would be dead two years ago, so don’t stop loving or praying seems funny noone believes untill it’s proven I hope it’s proven

This is a wonderful poem, and I love it so much. I’ve sent the poem to many people and told them about it… only I didn’t tell them about the terminally ill girl that wrote it… I feel like a total jerk saying this (hence the anonymisity), but, it was written by a child phsycologist, not a girl.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical…

thanks for sharing that. its a beautiful poem, and i wrote it down on in a notebook so i could always have it . again thanks

Okay - I got it twice in a row awhile back (as a chain letter) and sent it on… one of my friends emailed me back with the truth. I ended up forwarding the snopes URL to everyone who had sent it to me AND everyone who had gotten it from me.

It is sad that someone would try to lie about that, but I don’t really care that much about where it comes from. I just like the poem a lot. It is true, no matter where it came from, and I try to slow down. It’s the little things in life that matter, the ’stopping to smell the roses’ moments that prove to be a person’s favorites.

Also, cancer is a serious thing, and a terrible thing… but I don’t believe that nobody deserves this (I can think of several people who deserve much worse than this, historically). She (the sforementioned hypothetical girl with cancer) couldn’t possibly have done anything yet in her life that seems to make her deserving of this; indeed she doesn’t have cancer because of something she did, but because of who she is. She is human, and that fact has implications not limited to the physical parts of being human; there are spiritual parts too. Unlike the popular thoughts on man being inherently good, humankind is inherently evil. All the thoughts of man are constantly evil. Is it harder for anyone to do the good thing, or to do the bad thing (and here’s the kicker- I’m talking about doing the good thing BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, NOT because other people praise you or reward you for it!) The truth is, humans constantly desire to do evil, and that IS A FAULT ALL HUMANS SHARE. You can say it’s genetic, in a way. So you see, Humans deserve evil for the sins of humankind, and their own personal sins. Even if she (the same girl) had never yet done anything wrong in her life, she would still be in a way deserving of eternal torture, not just cancer, because she is human.

Why aren’t all humans tortured then is a tough question. I belive that God is warning us when we see something like this happening. He is warning that if an innocent girl suffers this much, we shouldn’t say Hah, she deserved it, but we shouldn’t say, its not fair. Instead we should look back and say, I am so much worse than her, if she is suffering that much, where do I belong? It says in the book of luke… (Luke 13:1-5)

1Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

By the way, perish here is referring to something a lot worse than cancer.

BTW, I was anonymous…