Tomorrow, February 15, International Children's Day with Cancer is celebrated, and for this reason we are echoing several related news these days. Today we want to dedicate some lines to Manifesto for the International Day of Children with Cancer 2012, which every year wants to claim some aspect of this reality.
As in the Manifesto of last year, the voice is given to the protagonists, children, adolescents and adults who had cancer and who want us to know them. People like any other of their age, who enjoy, get excited and suffer for the same thing, tell us "There is no difference between you and me", except that they went through the disease.
The Federation of Parents of Children with Cancer He wanted to remind us that these children and adolescents have the same need to relate to their environment, to participate in the world, to be looked at and asked, to be excited, to share and contribute what they carry inside the world around them.
I am a child, I play, I laugh, I cry, I jump, I run, I study, I play sports, I am obedient (sometimes), I love listening to my grandparents, being with my friends, going on vacation, the “Play”, the movies of drawings. I don't like being sick, sad, feeling bad, seeing my parents worried. Like all children Ah! I forgot, I had Cancer. What prevents you from knowing me? I am a teenager, they say something rebellious, wanting to change the world, although sometimes I am not sure what I want. Falling in love, very enamored, friend of my friends, often what I like does not seem quite right to my parents. I had an adversary who wanted to break me inside, but I learned to love myself more and hesitated to float to get away. Ah! I had cancer. What prevents you from knowing me? I am young, educated, eager to work, travel, meet new people and cultures, responsible with society and eager to live and have fun. I realized that it is impossible to have two letters left over and although sometimes I did not have the strength to cry and pull myself, I said to myself: If there is no wind we will have to paddle. I had cancer. What prevents you from knowing me? There is no difference between you and me. The only thing that is different is that I had a disease that for a time stopped part of my life and made everything seem different. I had to learn to live with pain, discomfort, compulsory isolation and sometimes loneliness because by force I learned that some people walked away when I knew I was sick. But I never stopped smiling, I never stopped being the same as the others and today I am here to tell everyone that in this life nobody is different, although it may seem so, that we all have the same desire to live and fight to be happy . Don't leave us alone. We need your support, we need to know that you are there. We teach you and you teach us. What do you think? We have a lot to offer. We believe it is a good deal. Are you willing to comply? We do not know how many we are, but if we can ensure that we are more than three, that is why we ask you: What prevents you from knowing us?
As we see, this Manifesto for the International Day of Children with Cancer 2012, prepared by the Federation of Parents of Children with Cancer, is developed through an optimistic and normalizing message: that children and adolescents who suffer from this disease are primarily children and adolescents.
