Positivity: Tony Snow–”Fear Is a Waste of Time”

A “read the whole thing” piece: Radio talk show host and nationally syndicated columnist Tony Snow has cancer, but he’s never “felt” better (HT Michelle Malkin):

Still, the last few months — my time of surgery and chemo — have been the happiest and most thrilling of my life. They have confirmed lessons that seem at once too good to be true, and too important and vital not to be.

Here is a short inventory:
- Faith matters. Prayers heal. Love overcomes.
- People want to do good for others; they just need excuses.
- Fear is a waste of time. The worst that can happen is that we’ll die — which happens to everybody, anyway. Until the Grim Reaper comes knocking, we’re alive.
- We can count our hardships, but not our blessings.
- Life does not revolve around us. It envelops us.
- There is no condition that someone else has not already overcome.
- Nothing makes one feel more alive than the prospect of death and the requirement that one fight for the things that give life its richness, meaning and joy.

Seven months into my little adventure, I love my wife and children more than ever; relish my work more than I could have imagined; and feel joy that I cannot begin to describe. I also have some street credibility when it comes to counseling cancer patients. I now can do what my friend did: Dispense a little advice and encouragement, so someone else can replace fear with hope and anxiety with determination.

Which leads to the final healing lesson. When you find a good thing, don’t be selfish. Pass it on. You’ll feel better — and so will someone you love.