Why Us?

It is a struggle not to dwell on this question. Why Us?
Why, when we did everything "right" would this happen to us. We did everything on the "Cancer Prevention" list and more...and yet, here we are.
Our organic eating, green smoothie drinking, vitamin pill popping, natural cleaners, reverse osmosis, hepa filtering selves are in the thick of exactly what we were trying to escape.
I would hate for someone to throw in the towel in their life because of our example. I would hate for someone to say "well look at them! They did all these things right and it really didn't matter! Why bother trying?"
I admit that in moments of weakness and resentment at the unfairness of it all that I haven't let that cross my mind. Why Bother?! All of our best efforts and look where it got us?
But perhaps we were missing the lesson. Perhaps it was all of these choices that we made to prioritize our health and be proactive in preventative medicine that allows us to be so otherwise healthy. Perhaps it is why the cancer has grown slowly and why he otherwise feels generally well, why he will go through treatments with a strong body and a quick recovery. We will reap the rewards of our efforts, if not for the ways we imagined.
Perhaps it is the irony and exactly the unfairness of it all that we needed. WE are not in control.
WE simply need to do the best we can with what we are given. We did it then and we will do it now. In this lesson of faithful acceptance we are tested on another level BECAUSE it is the very thing that we least expected. That we didn't "deserve".
With that then, the question remains simply; "why NOT us?"