Charity Case

I understand the need to "get the word out" for the charity of your choice. We do live in a culture where if the people don't have it shoved down their throat, they won't know or care that the problem exists. After all what American would know anyone in another world is dying of starvation if Annie Lennox didn't tell them?

While having someone's charity shoved in my face today I realized that there can be a fine line with the passionate charity folk. Let me get this straight. You or your friend has fought a deadly disease and now you have dedicated your life to the charitable organization that is fighting for funding care and/or a cure? Understand that I too agree this is important. But when it's all you now do with your life it may just be a bit of a waste.

I want you to survive your deadly disease thanks to the passion of scientists and doctors who have perfected a treatment. After survival I want you to live your life more passionately than ever before because you have no doubt obtained another chance to keep breathing. Put a sign on your car. Get the word out. Do a fund raiser, but if you wake up haunted by the need to raise money to cure everyone and go to bed wishing you could do more ... you're a bit of a nut who needs to focus more on your own damn life than everybody else's.

To those who rally for charitable donations for the cause they care about, I want you to keep in mind that some people do have their own battles to fight. If you are currently residing on this planet and have a brain in your head I would hope you have become passionate about something all on your own. I would like to assume that everyone has chosen the charity case of their choice to support. Of course that's not true and that's why we do have campaigns. Oddly enough people do get well into their lives before they "look" for a cause to support. If you ask me they shouldn't have had to ever look. It should be obvious what they need to do.

I would love to give money to support the cure for AIDS. I'd love to donate some money to feed some starving people in another country. Hell, I'd love to donate money to feed people in my own country (imagine that). I want to fund autism and alzheimer research. The causes to outlaw bullying are on that list too. It would be great but we must eventually realize we can not help everyone. I choose to support transgendered awareness, LGBT issues and the pursuit of spreading fabulousness throughout this entire world. I could be my own damned cause for crying out loud and it's certainly a much required cause (i.e. fabulousness).

Humans want to fix everything and help everybody. They can't. But isn't it funny how we could all agree to get along, work toward cures for free and change our entire structure into a helping futuristic society but yet we keep doing what we've always done? We murder, rape and pillage all the while trying to "help."  It's fascinating, isn't it?