Upside down reality
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I'm sure many of you must have come across some popular facebook status updates like :
Every person has 1000 wishes. A cancer patient only has one wish, to get better. I know that 97% of my friends won’t post this as their status, but my (true) friends will be the 3% that do. In honor of someone who died, or is fighting cancer – post this for at least one hour….
To start, I don't think someone has like 1000 wishes, very untrue. On the other hand, a cancer patient does not have only one wish but many.
Now, I consider this message very aggressive the way it's been written and is, to my humble consideration, far from being effective on people.
I do not understand at all how can such updates on facebook help cancer patients or the cancer cause. Instead, I find that work on the field, being close to the cancer patients, contributing to organisations fighting the cause, empowering patients/parent by your personal (real) investment, gathering resource, these are concrete actions that should be done.
I have lost dear ones with cancer within the last decade and I know what that suffering means to a whole family including the patient. It's better not to lecture me on that. But, it's not for that that I would post such aggressive messages on facebook.
There have been other status-update campaigns like :
I like it on the edge of the toilet seat or I like it on the edge of the table or bed .. etc
At some point, it was popular to make others aware of the color of your underwear each day (to fight cancer) on facebook. I mean that's really bullshit. How can crazy messages like these help the cause ?
My message to all people who want to really help the cause (and not just passing time posting status), you can help a patient in your local hospital or donate online to organisations like http://www.cbcf.org/en-US/home.aspx or http://supportus.cancerresearchuk.org/donate/
I'm sure 90% won't do it because it's more easier and cheaper to update a facebook status than to do actions on the field ! (no disrespect meant, whatsoever)
It's never sufficient to talk just for the sake of talking but you should walk your talk too ! Stop with such social hypocrisy.
