Crazy Sexy Kris Carr

Wow, I started seeing preview clips about Kris Carr's documentary 'Crazy Sexy Cancer' on TLC a while ago. It seemed really intriguing and like something I wanted to see.
I don't have cancer yet, but knowing the current stats (as well as the dramatic rate of increase) it seems pretty likely to happen at some point. At this point in time 'they' say that 2 in 5 Canadians (or 41.5%) will have some form of cancer in their lifetime.
Now I've kind of sidetracked myself by going and looking up those figures, anyways, that's a lot, I work with 19 other people, so 8 of us will probably have some cancer at some point, nearly half. So, the looming reality of the situation causes me to look at this as more of a when, not 'if'.

Should we wait until then to really start living?

We've probably all thought about we would change if we found out we were going to die, well, guess what, we are going to die! Just because we don't have a doctor's projected timeline doesn't mean it isn't going to happen, or that it's going to be when we're in our 80's or 90's. When I think of it like that, and then I think of people who die in car accidents, or work accidents, or any number of ways that people die each day without warning, somehow, the people with cancer almost seem luckier, they get that last chance to change things, or say things, or do things that they want to but might not have if they thought they were going to live forever.

I think Kris' message is pretty simple, you also don't have to have cancer or any other terminal condition (other then life) to change our tunes. Kris' message incorporates so much and so many messages. She seems to use focusing on the here and now to keep a positive outlook, why waste precious time being unhappy?
I'm really excited to see the documentary and see what else I can get from it. I also plan to read her book 'Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips', since I have a 41.5% chance of getting it some day I might as well start living, thinking, eating and being healthy. I have heard more often lately, cancer survivors, saying they are healthier/stronger or happier after cancer then they ever were before. That alone is enough for me.

Kris Carr was on Oprah yesterday and she was really awesome. I'm really looking forward to seeing her show on TLC tomorrow (Wednesday October 24/07 5pm and 8pm on TLC Channel 34 in Vancouver).