Strength Amidst Adversity

It has been confirmed. We will be losing our third classmate next week. MY has been diagnosed to have first stage cancer. Although surgery and radiation options are available here but at dispersed locations. Staying put to struggle through the remaining three months will mean lots of travelling and loneliness too without her family by her side.

But guess what, unlike the whiny me, MY stood strong when the news broke, remain so when she broke the news to the class. It seems like we are more affected than her. But underneath that fortitude, I sense helplessness. Who wouldn't be to know of such news at one's prime time, pursuing one's dreams with endless ones to come after graduation.

The silver lining behind the dark cloud though is that it's still stage one, pretty isolated and MY should recover fully and join us in Jan next year. Amidst all these, I sense God's grace in the whole episode, MY too. If she hadn't join the program and was put through the rigourous health checks, this diagnosis would have been much delayed.

I am saddened by the loss of yet another classmate and morale has been hit to its low once again but I wish MY the very best and I thank God for yet another lesson learned, "Strength Amidst Diversity" and of course "The silver lining behind every dark cloud".