Action for Change!

"Its a great life if you don't weaken"

I don't know who said it, feel free to let me know if you do.  I know my Grandma White said it all the time. 

"If wishes were horses beggars would ride"

That's another one my Grandma would say over the years.  It wasn't until I was a grown up that I truly understood what she meant.  Now I see.  It is a great life if you can make it through each day at least mostly intact.  And then if you can get up the next day and do it again, it's a great life.  It truly is great.

Sometimes just before the FFOH auction we get tired.  We get tired and over whelmed.  We love getting the auction ready.  We love hosting the auction.  We clean up.  We don't love that but we do it.  In the early years this morning after was the best part of the auction.  When it was still at the bar, we would have coffee and eat some left over fruit and go over the best parts of the night.  Then we would clean up.  Now we bring coffee and visit for a bit but really, its not quite the same.  That's just me being nostalgic.

And right after that weekend we are weaker than at any point in the year.  We are tired and weak.  And then we get a couple of good nights sleep and then it comes back.  Our resolve, our determination, our strength.  And its a great life. 

We make wishes everyday.  We wish cancer didn't happen.  We wish families were not struck by the devastation that follows.  We wish we had millions of dollars and didn't have to pound the pavement and fund raise constantly.  We wish we didn't have to do what we do.  Quite frankly, I wish there was no need for FFOH.  But there is.  We will not ride.  We will not stand by and make idle wishes.  We will do what we can to help the situation. 

Don't let anyone tell you not to try and change any situation that you are in if you are not happy with it.  You can.  You can change your world.  Maybe not the whole world but your world.  Once upon a time, women couldn't vote.  We couldn't work.  We were not allowed to divorce our abusive spouses.  Someone set about to change their world and ended up changing it all. 

Whatever change that you would like to see in the world, do all you can to achieve it.  If you would like to help people with cancer, do it.  If you want to help with cancer research, do it.  If you want to support stopping climate change, do it.  But please do something. 

Don't be a beggar riding through a mediocre life on hollow wishes.  Join the fight.  Join the people that are making a difference.  Do not pay lip service.  Put your time, your muscle and your thought behind it and act with purpose.  We do not have to live in a world we are not happy with.  We can change it. 

If you would like to help with Forever Friends, let me know.  We would love to have you.  If not us then call someone.  Join a movement for a better world.  We really can do it together.