“Write a book, take a cruise, go to vegas , flash mob, film a movie, see my grandkids grow up to become adults, forget everyone else’s problem. It’s not even a bucket list its my second time at life list so everything that i wanna do I’m gonna try it I think I’ve done almost 40 flash mobs so I really need to count. I was diagnosed with cancer may 2010, I was doing everything for everyone else putting them before me and thinking ‘oh I’ve got plenty of time to do that I’ll get to it later” once I was diagnosed then I’m saying who knows what the outcome is gonna be, I better get to it now.
So this is my scar/ I chose to have a complete mastectomy, and then a round of 26 radiation treatments.
But i’m not gonna sit there. What I did was strength training and the flash mob with the dancing and the rehearsals, kind of helped me with that.
This is the new me i’m not changing for anyone, this is me living for myself now. I didn’t like being around grumped people so I made it my business not to be like that.
No I never get exhausted just like, oh this feeling of joy going through you like yes, it brings me joy and then seeing other people get excited from what we’re doing, seine the smiles on their face a person we’re performing for crying, that makes me feel good.
If I can dance and everybody else is my audience and when you flash mob and you feel like everybody is looking at you even though there’s a hundred people, that the spotlight is no you.
And it’s perfect because you can’t mess up, even if you do mess up you’re not messing up — you just call it a solo.”

Sharon Harris has been in over 40 flash mobs — sometimes twice a week. She calls it her anti-chemo. A breast cancer survivor, she decided to make a “second chance at life list.” Flash mobbing was number one, and she won’t be stopping soon.

A mother and grandmother, she spends her time rehearsing at studios around the city and flash mobbing at different locations — often with only a few hours notice. She does catering on the side, as well as hairstyling for friends and neighbours in University Heights, as well as loyal customers from around the city.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, and chose to undergo surgery and chemo to battle the disease. This May, she will return to her doctor for more tests and find out whether or not she is in remission.

Harris said the flash mobs have helped her cope with the side-effects of her treatment. Muscle stiffness, nausea, exhaustion and other problems mean she should be walking with a cane — but she chooses to stay active.

Her family is one of her biggest support systems, but she has also made a new circle of friends among fellow flash-mobbers. They hang out, go to movies and are in constant contact when they’re not rehearsing together.

She said flash mobbing was the first thing on her list because it was the easiest, and keeps coming back because she loves to dance and of course, the spotlight.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, and chose to undergo surgery and chemo to battle the disease. This May, she will return to her doctor for more tests and find out whether or not she is in remission.