Longing.

We worry. We worry all the time about messing up, about what might happen.

I was in a conversation the other day talking about not giving people false hope, because I know how stories turn out. I know that the odds of death in this illness are great. And I don’t want people to get their hopes up and then be devastated.

But I realized the other day that sometimes I give people false fear. I distract, I lower expectations. And that’s not helpful either.

Because both false hope and fals...