Julia Louis-Dreyfus Says Breast Cancer Diagnosis Put Priorities into ‘Sharp Focus’: I Made ‘an Attitude Shift’

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1. > **“I think that when you’re younger, there’s kind of this arrogance of youth, of feeling like — you do feel immortal,”** she explained. **“And then all of a sudden you’re bumped up against that and you’re like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. This, at some point, is going to end.’ You don’t go through life thinking about that very much. So it puts into sharp focus priorities — it did for me.”**

   > The actress said she ultimately made some changes to her perspective. “**I made more of an attitude shift about what my priorities were and how to sort of go forth.** And a lot of this work that we’re talking about today is sort of as a result of that,” she added, referring to her new movie Tuesday and podcast Wiser Than Me.

2. “I realized for the very first time in my life that my life had a beginning and an end,” she continued. “I have never actually visualized it until that diagnosis. It’s like the world snapped into focus. I cleared away stuff I didn’t want anymore. I held on tightly to the things I did.”

   As a woman currently going through breast cancer treatment, I very much relate to this.

   I appreciate those in the spotlight that share their stories.

3. I’d like to ask a serious question and ask how many quotes/stories similar to these from people who have had cancer or other diseases until others actually start living their life like this! If you’re reading this today…is it going to take until you get cancer to realize what she’s saying or that you too can start changing your attitude in a different way? Over my lifetime and I know others, I’ve had several people get cancer with most dying because of it unfortunately so I’ve tried to live like this for some time now. It’s not easy, of course no one is perfect but yeah, this isn’t new and for all those waiting for something to happen to you to change…why wait…just start changing now.