How this 29-year-old head with a terminal cancer is planning to live his last days

You may have known Fatima Ali since her experience in "Top Chef", but after a heartfelt, witty and heartbreaking essay that she recently wrote for Bon Appetit, you'll soon realize that the best way to describe this New York chef is not as a TV star, but with words like courage and bravery.

In a moving and remarkable essay for the site, Ali reveals that a rare form of cancer that she faced last year has returned "with revenge" and that she has about a year to live.

But this final diagnosis will not prevent the 29-year-old girl from living her last days in style or sharing them with those she loves.

While his essay begins with an anecdote about first-class theft, Ali admits that the diagnosis has "forced me to improve my life" and that, however, "I was eager to have 30 years, be attractive and thriving ", she will install instead. intensify "flirting.I have no time to lose."

"It's funny, is not it?" she writes. "When we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to engage in life experiences."

"When this choice is withdrawn, we strive to feel," she continues. "I'm desperate to overload my senses over the coming months, booking at the best restaurants in the world, contacting past lovers and friends, and stifling my family, leaving them the time I've been so selfishly keeping before."

It's really amazing how Ali manages to keep his humor and wit, even if his body fails him. She later admits that she worked in a restaurant and even used her "illness as a tactic" to get a reservation.

"I'm upset when I get an answer from chef Rene Redzepi himself – it turns out people react when you tell them you're dying of cancer," she jokes.

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It's funny, is not it? When we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to engage in life experiences. When this choice is removed, we strive to feel. I'm desperate to overload my senses over the next few months, booking at the best restaurants in the world, contacting past lovers and friends and stifling my family, leaving them the time I had so selfishly kept.

But the young chef is also able to make sure to include the most heartbreaking aspects of what needs to be done, such as the napkin she keeps in her wallet, the one that bears the names of the people who she plans to sort.

"I have to learn to ask for forgiveness without waiting to receive it, it's probably the scariest thing I've ever had to do, and I've had moments of great terror," she writes. .

And while she appreciates "knowing that I can finally live for myself, even if only for a few more precious months," she admits that she is afraid of what is coming.

"I think I will not last very long," she adds. "There is a slight sensation at the bottom of my belly that looks like a hubbub of air that expands and fills up slowly until one day, I will appear."

Until then, just like his first-class incursion and his direct messages to the elite restaurants, Ali will use every day he has left to "live something new".

"I was always afraid of being mean, anyway, and now, I long to have a simple life without a story," she concludes.