What Color Are You?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I just found a collection of sites that have gone pink in honor of the month. No I won’t be doing that. Nor will I be changing to some other crazy color just in honor of what ever month it is. Don’t get me wrong. I would love to see a cure for breast cancer. But how many cancers are there? How do you pick a cause to get behind? Even if I just choose between the anti-cancer organizations, I still have a plethora to choose from. But there’s also save the planet, save the whales, save the homeless children, save the imported orphans, save the local orphans, save the orphans that you will never see, save the trees, save our historic sites, save our city from trashy yards, save us all from the UN, I could even join a cause to get some crazy family to re-landscape their yard. How does one choose a cause without having some sort of personal grudge against a specific malady. Maybe I will choose a “pro” organization instead of an “anti” organization. There’s a ton of them out there too. There’s countless religious, political, scientific, photography, design, even car organizations. So do I need one of these organizations to help define who I am? Maybe. If I put a big CTR on here, maybe people would know I was LDS. Maybe I should write a big post about my favorite conference talk from this last weekend. Maybe I’ll post some pictures on here that will let the world know how I feel about some cause. Maybe I’ll create my own ads for my favorite political candidate for the next election.
So how does one make a difference without selling out to one specific cause? Somehow I want to say something eloquent about how we just need to live our lives better or raise our children better or maybe just eat better desserts. But then, eloquence somehow eludes me. You would think I would have gotten used to it by now. Guess I’ll just go campaign to get those bigots thrown out of town. Man, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a bigot.
