Shivanie Gopal (LGFB Volunteer) : “Don’t let the cold days define you”
Shivanie Gopal is passionate about volunteering for LGFB although not a cancer patient herself she has the following words of encouragement for cancer patients:
Always remember you are so much braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined. “Let us embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”. Let us let go of the things we cannot control. Just because I can’t control what life throws at me doesn’t mean I can’t control how I handle it from every 
wound, there is a scar, and
every scar tells a story. A story that says, I survived.
What it means to be a survivor: It’s more than the physical scars which heal, but still haunt us. It includes the mental, emotional, and psychological scars which slowly heal also, but are just as haunting at times. Being a survivor means the struggle is in the moment, being a survivor is a constant battle and an exhausting one. There will be seasons, where your branches, don’t.
bear leaves and it feels like, the sky will never grant you another sunny day.
“Don’t let the cold days, define you.”
Some says the triggers and the pain can be overwhelming, while others are on a smaller scale and are easier to get through, remind yourself to breathe and find your way out of the darkness. For
that is all it is, a battle being fought with a monster in the dark, and every day that we wake up we have successfully stood our ground and told that monster:
“No more, I will not let you pass.” This is what it means to survive. I am a survivor, but I intend to win the war. This is who I am. This is ME.