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From the Ted Talk by Ananda Shankar Jayant: Fighting cancer with dance
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Open Cloze
I ________ then that I, who thought I had complete _______ of my life, had control of only three things: My _______, my mind -- the images that these thoughts created -- and the action that derived from it. So here I was _________ in a vortex of ________ and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness. I wanted to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, for which I needed something. I needed something that would pull me out of all this. So I dried my tears, and I ________ to the world at large ... I said, "Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life."
Solution
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- wallowing
- control
Original Text
I realized then that I, who thought I had complete control of my life, had control of only three things: My thought, my mind -- the images that these thoughts created -- and the action that derived from it. So here I was wallowing in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness. I wanted to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, for which I needed something. I needed something that would pull me out of all this. So I dried my tears, and I declared to the world at large ... I said, "Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life."
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