Ripple in Still Water

By Simon Waterfield

Genres: Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Mind Body Spirit, Self-Help/Personal Development

Age Groups: 12-18, 18+

Cancer is not only a physical disease. It also gnaws away at your thoughts, emotions, and self-belief.

These emotional issues are not much explored.

Two years of fighting prostate cancer changed Simon’s world, and that of his family and friends.

Simon began to look, not so much at the physical, but at the invisible ripples caused by cancer.

He took a look at the emotions and thoughts generated by the big C.

Not just of himself, but of those around him. His friends and family, and of course, the dog.

How does he feel? How does he think he should be feeling? How does he want to feel? What is he looking for?

How is he communicating with the world and how does he actually want to communicate?

How do the people around him feel? What are they looking for? How do they communicate with both the world, and with him?

There are so many emotions to navigate.

There are so many communication issues to overcome.

Simon explores these issues in a variety of short stories.

Some involve him, and others are fictional.

Simon is not offering any solutions or cures.

What he does offer is support in that you are not alone in thinking and feeling like you do, and that there are other, better ways of feeling and communicating.