A colleague was curious about my treatment plan, so I told her about six-hour IV drips, drugs that make everything taste like tin, and a radiation schedule that requires daily office visits for five weeks straight. "How can you stand to go through all that?" she asked. "You're so brave!"
Brave? Pragmatic is more like it. I mean, consider the options:
You're standing at a crossroads near the edge of a deep canyon. One path is straight and level and easy but it leads you fairly quickly right over the edge; the other path is rough and steep and charges a heavy toll, but it skirts the edge for a while before disappearing in the distance, where it might just go ahead and dump you into the canyon or it might meander off inland for miles before returning eventually to the edge.
Which would you choose?
Me, I'd rather meander.
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