Other people
CrazyCat
I know what you mean a bit. Ive got much fewer friends now than i did before, but I think the ones I do have now are good ones and I know I can rely on them. I hope you have a few good friends to rely on too, dont worry about the rest of them. If there not supportive, there not worth the thought x
laura
I think it can become a trap thinking that people are all the same - when one person shows they don't get a damn, you can start to presume other people are like it too. For me, I have felt pretty bitter - all my friends moved on with their lives while I was undergoing treatment and most never had time for me after it all finished and I began to feel better. Life seemed to pass me by.
I'm with Cat. Now's your chance to make some new friends who share your interests and feel passionately about the same things you do! That's what I'm trying to do, albeit largely failing!! xx
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I really struggle with feeling abandoned by people who became quite intense in wanting to be suppportive through the worst days of cancer, who have gone AWOL whilst seeing me recover. It makes me feel that I was a tourist attraction or someone’s ‘good deed’. “I’ll bake a nice cake for the poor little cancer girl” or “I’ll take her a present so that she knows I’m thinking of her” seems to convince people of their own integrity. Surely cancer should build up one’s own sense of the goodness of human nature, not chisel away at it.