Erik Gray's journals
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Written by Erik, January 2015
There is an idea that “only women should have a blog”,
but I, along with many others, am happily an exception.
I put off starting a blog for months for many reasons: time, procrastination, and self-doubt.
When I finally went for it and started my blog two years ago, I initially worried what others would think of me and what they would say.
I had spent many years as a self-conscious teenager trying to fit in, only doing what was “cool”, and limiting myself from my full potential.
After a cancer diagnosis, and then self-identification because of it, I came to realize that it doesn’t matter what people think.
Once that thought came to my head, my attitude about blogging changed; I should do what makes me happy. I love writing and I love sharing my experiences, and for that purpose I have maintained a blog that shares my journey through cancer, faith, hope, and desire to change the world.
I am a cancer survivor, a blogger, and a man.
