Christina Costa
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I tried to figure out what I was struggling with the most by looking back on all the things I had been writing about this experience.
I wrote and posted this on Instagram about a week after I received that pathology report.
I will keep fighting.
I will keep loving.
I will keep living.
I will keep loving.
I will keep living.
And then about a week after that, I wrote this.
Fighter.
I tried it on to see how it felt because I kept hearing those words next to my name.
Like a job, like an identity, like a role.
Fighter.
I look at myself in the mirror.
It felt okay at first, but soon it became exhausting.
Too heavy to lift, too much to carry, too burdensome to bear.
I took it off and left it on the floor.
War was not for me.
A body is not a battlefield.
I realized that I had been introduced to the fight narrative.
When people heard my diagnosis, I became a fighter.