I am a very big supporter of the ideal a little help goes a long way. Mainly for the fact it's a matter I both practise and have benefited from. In fact without help over the last few years I would have starved at times, money got that bad due to my health. So I always try to give back when I can.
Over the last few weeks people have been put in worse situations than I could ever imagine and only by the grace of god do more not suffer. Yet what has really caught my attention in fundraising and all that goes with it was not the great campaigns etc, but the few words from one actor at a film festival and then the ripple effect it had.
The actors name is Sebastian Stan and it was at the TIFF film festival all the actors had to write the rest of the sentence " I want to....." Now as expected most actors put something more personally identifiable or even self based. Instead though Sebastian wrote I want to help someone. A very simple sentence that has had such a ripple through social media that nearly $3,000 has been raised in less than a week by his fans for anti human trafficking charity he supports.
It's been amazing to watch I have to admit I have supported both that and the other charity he has put his face to, not to impress anyone but because of the fact he has left an impression on me. A celebrity/actor however you define them, to have such selflessness in a situation of self promotion is a rarity. A fleeting light in a tainted world, and yet there he was. Because of such action others will benefit.
But if you take it down to the grass roots values, if a person in the public eye can do it with such few words, what can anyone do with some well placed thoughts and actions. Sure we can all give a few pennies here and there where we can, follow the lead or answer the call so to speak. But it's better balanced with actions that match. The need for help is always required in any society, there are always poorer, weaker, older, frailer members in any social situation. Not all of them will ask or even admit they need help, not just for pride reasons, but purely to keep hold of dignity and self respect. It is these people who could benefit the most from action rather than donation. From wheeling in bins to holding a door open, everything counts. Help doesn't have to be a big gesture, but a genuine one. For example I spend my life on crutches, yet I am fiercely independent. The greatest help I appreciate when out isn't people who try to take things from me or imply I need extra help, its the people who say good morning while holding a door open with a smile rather then sending me flying in their rush. Trust me I've experienced it all. It's the genuine offer that gives me a choice, rather than overwhelming or dominating me. If more people were like that society would be such a nicer place.
So while we live with the very positive ripple from the actions of one person and I will leave you the links if you wish to keep it going, you can also keep the ripple of the words going just by looking at how you act in day to day life, and what more it doesn't cost you a penny, just a few little words.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/iwannahelpsomeone
https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/drive-for-a-cure
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Are we going to get to 2018
I have sat and thought about writing this for a while, and finally bit the bullet. Seriously I thought last year was bad with all the notable deaths but this year is heading to make last year look like a picnic.
There are three particular world leaders with a few of their friends that if they don't wise up get their heads out of their arse's and stop pushing their own egos, will have the entire world at nuclear war before the first day of advent. Seriously it's worse than a load of toddlers arguing, except these bleeding idiots had weaponry that we have just proved man isn't responsible enough to control.
There is nothing great or clever by firing warning shots all over Asia just to see where it lands, nor is grown up to then threaten said person via social media. Come on folks at this rate we would be better off with mickey mouse in charge and a whole lot safer. I'm sorry but I'm done with these people, including my own so called leader. Not one of them has proved their maturity in the matter, in fact even the leaders of the UN aren't faring much better. These people need to be stopped one way or another and if you can't do it the former legal way, it's time to rewrite the law as something is clearing wrong when the leaders of multiple countries all have questionable mental health issues.
I keep hearing cries from the masses saying things must change, but little action. What's it going to take to rid us of such tyranny. Russia I can understand, they have been so indoctrinated over the years, that the masses are weaken, even north Korea has reasons to not react. But America ? Come on, you all have the opportunity to stop this happened, what has happened is an opening for the return of neo nazi and kkk. Seriously I despair, then I look close to home at the UK and I just want to cry. We have a leader who is basically the lap dog of whoever shouts the loudest, whilst also shredding the dignity of every elderly, or disabled person in the country, by constant demànds to justify their own existence and need for aid.
Going back to America, purely as at the moment of writing this they are being hit for the second time in as many weeks with a hurricane, they are literally dying in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, because no one will man up and say we need to take drastic action in this situation. The reason being again is down to some mislead ego trip afraid to admit that he was wrong about climate change. Well I've got news to you Mr president, just because you can't face reality doesn't make it fake, and if you even bothered to get you god dam suit wet and actually go into the affected streets you would see what your voting public are facing. I mean what's it going to take for someone to get him to face reality, I bet if one of his hotels or golf courses really got flooded or shredded by this weather, then he may notice. But instead he is too busy upsetting north Korea via twitter.
Yes I am picking on America a bit, but only because I realise I have readers from all over the world and it is the one country we all get the news about. I can honestly say the UK is no better, only difference being our leadership are little more sneaky and it doesn't make the international news so easily. We are up to our little necks in trouble, collapsing healthcare, failing education system, and now our military seems have its own group of neo nazi fans.
It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when extremist Islam groups take second place in world fear to our own leaders, but that's how much the world has changed since the start of the year. Now I am left wondering what's it going to take to actually making it to 2018.
There are three particular world leaders with a few of their friends that if they don't wise up get their heads out of their arse's and stop pushing their own egos, will have the entire world at nuclear war before the first day of advent. Seriously it's worse than a load of toddlers arguing, except these bleeding idiots had weaponry that we have just proved man isn't responsible enough to control.
There is nothing great or clever by firing warning shots all over Asia just to see where it lands, nor is grown up to then threaten said person via social media. Come on folks at this rate we would be better off with mickey mouse in charge and a whole lot safer. I'm sorry but I'm done with these people, including my own so called leader. Not one of them has proved their maturity in the matter, in fact even the leaders of the UN aren't faring much better. These people need to be stopped one way or another and if you can't do it the former legal way, it's time to rewrite the law as something is clearing wrong when the leaders of multiple countries all have questionable mental health issues.
I keep hearing cries from the masses saying things must change, but little action. What's it going to take to rid us of such tyranny. Russia I can understand, they have been so indoctrinated over the years, that the masses are weaken, even north Korea has reasons to not react. But America ? Come on, you all have the opportunity to stop this happened, what has happened is an opening for the return of neo nazi and kkk. Seriously I despair, then I look close to home at the UK and I just want to cry. We have a leader who is basically the lap dog of whoever shouts the loudest, whilst also shredding the dignity of every elderly, or disabled person in the country, by constant demànds to justify their own existence and need for aid.
Going back to America, purely as at the moment of writing this they are being hit for the second time in as many weeks with a hurricane, they are literally dying in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, because no one will man up and say we need to take drastic action in this situation. The reason being again is down to some mislead ego trip afraid to admit that he was wrong about climate change. Well I've got news to you Mr president, just because you can't face reality doesn't make it fake, and if you even bothered to get you god dam suit wet and actually go into the affected streets you would see what your voting public are facing. I mean what's it going to take for someone to get him to face reality, I bet if one of his hotels or golf courses really got flooded or shredded by this weather, then he may notice. But instead he is too busy upsetting north Korea via twitter.
Yes I am picking on America a bit, but only because I realise I have readers from all over the world and it is the one country we all get the news about. I can honestly say the UK is no better, only difference being our leadership are little more sneaky and it doesn't make the international news so easily. We are up to our little necks in trouble, collapsing healthcare, failing education system, and now our military seems have its own group of neo nazi fans.
It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when extremist Islam groups take second place in world fear to our own leaders, but that's how much the world has changed since the start of the year. Now I am left wondering what's it going to take to actually making it to 2018.
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