To anyone else who does the ice bucket challenge, please consider sharing the below video (a total tearjerker story about the individual who inspired the original challenge) in addition to your own. No matter where you stand on the crotchety curmudgeon/uber practical/non-bandwagon/sensationalist scale, youd have to be a total jerk to deny that it is so flipping amazing that over $31 MILLION has been raised so far & a sh!t ton of awareness* about ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that is 100% fatal and that was pretty much on no ones radar (other than those personally affected and their loved ones; at a minimum, certainly not mine). & now with this reaching Europe and even the motherland - Riteish Deshmukh & Akshay Kumar just did it (what the...? hope they donated in dollars & not rupees! :-P) - infinitely more will be raised. * Note: Even though real awareness about the disease itself seemed to happen more recently after all the posts challenging the challenge about dump OR donate and there being little to no info provided, it eventually happened. & yes, it IS amazing regardless of whether it irks some that its all they are seeing in their news feeds (note to everyone who feels this way: I hate to be the one to break it to you, but any time anything *big* happens - whether it be a celebrity passing or a true phenomenon like the #alsicebucketchallenge, your news feed is going to be saturated - thats just kinda how social media works), how absurd it might feel when clean water is unavailable to 768 million people around the world (yes, we are absolutely wasting clean water which is understandably offensive to people who dont have access to it, but hey, this is America - thats kinda our thing, no?!), and/or a part of all of it feels kinda hmph to you (okay, me) because you wonder if it takes grand displays/stunts for us to take action and care & why it is that certain people care about some things and not others. Whatever the case may be, Im putting all my wondering to rest, because maybe it does take grand and uber fun gestures to raise awareness/funds for something that the masses knew very little about previously, and thats perfectly okay. https://facebook/photo.php?v=784396328249444 (Video about Pete Frates) alsa.org/donate/ #istillwontdumpiceonmyhead (b/c I fear having a Monica from Friends how many cameras are on you?! experience) #butididdonatetoALSandothercausesicareabout
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:03:17 +0000
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