For years, Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future) has been fighting Parkinson’s disease. Interviewed by the editorial staff AARP The Magazine, the Canadian-American actor confided in his daily life. Despite the illness, the interpreter of Marty McFly keeps a cool head. Far from letting go, he prefers to see life on the bright side. “I am really a happy guy”, the comedian first said before adding: “I don’t have any morbid thoughts in my head – I’m not afraid of death. At all. But as I walked through that darkness, I also got a glimpse of my stepfather, who had passed away and still espoused gratitude, acceptance, and trust. I started to notice things I was grateful for and how others would respond to difficulties with gratitude. I concluded that gratitude makes optimism enduring … If you don’t think you have anything to be thankful for, keep looking. Because you don’t get optimism. You can’t wait for things to turn out well and be grateful for it. “ A touching statement.
While Michael J. Fox tries to stay positive, he unfortunately cannot deny that some days are difficult to live with. But the 60-year-old actor is still aware of his privileges. During the interview, he confessed: “Illness is that thing that’s stuck in my life – it’s not the driver. And because I have the money, I have access to things that other people don’t have. I wouldn’t begin to compare my experience to that of a working man who gets Parkinson’s disease and has to quit his job and find a new way of life. So, I’m really lucky. “ Ready to use his notoriety to advance science, the actor is more active than ever in the associative world. He is also the co-creator of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which works to find a cure for the disease he himself suffers from. “Patients are the key. Now they are guiding our program and have been instrumental, for example, in our promising work to try to find biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease that would allow us to identify the disease in people before symptoms are evident. , and to pro-actively treat it and get rid of it ” Michael J. Fox concluded.