“Live, love, smile.” This is the message Nicky Sansone consistently sent out in her final days before she died of cancer earlier this month. Nicky, 55, knew she had days to live when she accepted an with Times of Malta to share and explain her message.
She had just been moved into palliative care at the Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre, when, sitting in her hospital bed attached to life-saving equipment, she spoke about why she started the process of recording her life with cancer on TikTok. She used her channel to urge people to check out any cancer symptoms immediately. But she also wanted to shock people into stopping and thinking – about their lives and their mortality.
She wanted to drive home the importance of living, loving and smiling. They are three simple words, with far-wider meanings. Live: In her own words, Nicky said many people exist on a treadmill of life-work-life-work.
“They forget to live. The world has become so sad. Enjoy life.
Stop fighting. Stop complaining. Live.
People worry about such stupid things,” she said. Many of us can relate to this. We live a rushed life heading towards goals often set by society, by the pressures accentuated on social media.
Is what we are doing making us happy? Are we truly living the life we want or simply existing and consuming day after day? Most of us are bent on complaining and worrying about things beyond our control. Nicky underlined the importance of living, not existing. To live “second by second” and.