So I’m writing a careplan for a 12 year old child who has recently been diagnosed with a form of cancer that has an exceptionally high poor prognosis. As i sit here writing developmental milestones, a multitude of past experiences flood into my mind. Experiences that are not even of great substance, but have impacted my life none-the-less for the better or worse. Experiences that this child will most likely never get to experience; a multitude of experiences that this child’s parents will never get to witness him experience. so strange how so many little things are taken for-granted of. and mostly, it is truly unfortunate that it takes writing this careplan for a dying 12 year old boy for me to revisit those ideas of, “life is short but sweet for certain”, “you only live once, so make it count”, “you are only young once” — all of those cliche sayings. I have been mulling over myself for so long now, that it has been hard to think outside of this black box. not even mulling over myself so much, but mulling over events of the recent past. but its a new dawn, its a new day. i am young. i am healthy. and anything is possible.