Indeed, we must live our pas­sions! When I lear­ned I had can­cer, I ima­gi­ned living in the dark and kno­wing eve­ry inch of my cei­ling by day! Ins­tead, we can use this time to live out our pas­sions. We often say: ‘If I had more time, I would do this or that, it’s a pas­sion’? ’ Indeed, I was like that before I got sick. I wan­ted to write a book on a sub­ject that has always fas­ci­na­ted me: Elvis Pres­ley concerts. When I was diag­no­sed, I had an oppor­tu­ni­ty. I refu­sed to be drawn into a vor­tex of des­pair that is hard to get out of. I approa­ched a publi­sher about my pro­ject. I was sure that he would be inter­es­ted. I was not mistaken!
Some­times I have to stop wri­ting for a few days because of pain and fatigue. Howe­ver, I am still moti­va­ted. For the record: So, one day when I was taking my che­mo­the­ra­py, I got a call from a record com­pa­ny to pick the songs to be inclu­ded on a big box set dedi­ca­ted to Elvis Pres­ley. I was so exci­ted that I did the tra­ck­lis­ting for a 5 vinyl box set in 2 hours. I was rewar­ded because the box set for which I had cho­sen the tracks was sold a few months later on the Inter­net and in all the big stores. Since 2012, I have alrea­dy deve­lo­ped 4 pro­ducts. These pro­ducts are varied: 2 boxes of 5 CDs, a vinyl record with a cloth bag repre­sen­ting Elvis in limi­ted edi­tion and the present pro­duct that I invite you to look at if you are inter­es­ted: Here the link AMAZON! To come back to my book, I don’t want to fall into a strait­ja­cket that I would have made myself. Espe­cial­ly since this per­iod of “for­ced pause” requires that we take it easy as pos­sible. I want to work at my own pace on this book. I hope it will be a very com­plete book that will give infor­ma­tion to those who share my pas­sion for Elvis. While I don’t want to com­pare myself to geniuses who have made mas­ter­pieces while being very ill with can­cer (or other ill­nesses), I know that it is pos­sible. When Mar­cel Proust wrote the last volume of “A la recherche du temps per­du”, he was bedrid­den. Bee­tho­ven com­po­sed the 9th sym­pho­ny when he was old and total­ly deaf. To conclude: In the first place, a pas­sion can help us in the hea­ling pro­cess. Simi­lar­ly, pas­sions can arise when we are at a tur­ning point in our lives; are you in the same situa­tion as me? Do you have pas­sions that drive you?If you are inter­es­ted in the sub­ject of occupations/moral, you can also read this forum topic here!

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