xelliebabex
Weird Aussie Chick
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It is very rare that i get truly mad about much but i did get mad at a friend yesterday and sent them this email.......
hey there sweetie,
I had a think this morning about what bothered me so much about you saying you were going to donate your earnings to the Viki Soto appeal........ and i want to express how i feel without judgement.
Takes a big breath...........
So many cases like this, ordinary people doing heroic things, in the news draw good minded people like yourself to them and raise a lot of money for very good causes. They do so because of incidents like the shooting or that poor boy who stood on the corner and was hit by a random car.
But there are so many charities out there doing it so hard that cant buy the media advertising that these tragedies get........
I don't make a big deal of the fact that I support a little known but phenomenal children's charity more with my time than financially. they provide housing for families from remote area's who children must have prolonged treatments in hospital. Farmers who had crop dusting planes or light planes to for general transport in the outback also donate time and fuel to ferry the kids back and forth in times of need so they can spend more time at home rather in in hospital or a strange house staffed by well meaning strangers. But that's my choice to support some unsung hero's.
Ask yourself, with all the publicity and wonderful people like you that Viki Soto's charity will appeal to is there not a school or a children's hospital in more need of your funds than that teachers family and friends who will probably gain more than they will know what to do with, through donations form wonderful people like you. Perhaps the counselors and psychiatrists who treat children of trauma like those who survived the shooting need a help hand more urgently.
I like that you care about these things but I find in a lot of ways you are so reactionary to the news and i just wanted to give you another perspective. News stories will always draw alot of money to them and charities who are proven to do good year after year as they hang by a financial thread never will.
I would like you to watch this commercial.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r53bYhmPJWA
The children of today are the ones who will ultimately decide new laws and which nursing homes we reside in and the funding given to them when we are old and feeble or if like Logan's run we will all be given an end date.
Just needed to say that and ask you to think about where your hard earned money should go. If you are giving to a highlighted media charity so you can be seen to make a difference or if your motivations are truly altruistic. I know that sounds like a challenge, but i am sure there are area's of your home town, that need hep more than Viki Soto's family. Think about it, please.
I agree fully that Viki was a hero and i would hope that if a gunman came to my classroom I would do the same but who knows ....... I just wanted to point out the unsung hero's to you.
~ellie
I know a lot of people will pounce on me for that but I felt the need to say it again.
hey there sweetie,
I had a think this morning about what bothered me so much about you saying you were going to donate your earnings to the Viki Soto appeal........ and i want to express how i feel without judgement.
Takes a big breath...........
So many cases like this, ordinary people doing heroic things, in the news draw good minded people like yourself to them and raise a lot of money for very good causes. They do so because of incidents like the shooting or that poor boy who stood on the corner and was hit by a random car.
But there are so many charities out there doing it so hard that cant buy the media advertising that these tragedies get........
I don't make a big deal of the fact that I support a little known but phenomenal children's charity more with my time than financially. they provide housing for families from remote area's who children must have prolonged treatments in hospital. Farmers who had crop dusting planes or light planes to for general transport in the outback also donate time and fuel to ferry the kids back and forth in times of need so they can spend more time at home rather in in hospital or a strange house staffed by well meaning strangers. But that's my choice to support some unsung hero's.
Ask yourself, with all the publicity and wonderful people like you that Viki Soto's charity will appeal to is there not a school or a children's hospital in more need of your funds than that teachers family and friends who will probably gain more than they will know what to do with, through donations form wonderful people like you. Perhaps the counselors and psychiatrists who treat children of trauma like those who survived the shooting need a help hand more urgently.
I like that you care about these things but I find in a lot of ways you are so reactionary to the news and i just wanted to give you another perspective. News stories will always draw alot of money to them and charities who are proven to do good year after year as they hang by a financial thread never will.
I would like you to watch this commercial.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r53bYhmPJWA
The children of today are the ones who will ultimately decide new laws and which nursing homes we reside in and the funding given to them when we are old and feeble or if like Logan's run we will all be given an end date.
Just needed to say that and ask you to think about where your hard earned money should go. If you are giving to a highlighted media charity so you can be seen to make a difference or if your motivations are truly altruistic. I know that sounds like a challenge, but i am sure there are area's of your home town, that need hep more than Viki Soto's family. Think about it, please.
I agree fully that Viki was a hero and i would hope that if a gunman came to my classroom I would do the same but who knows ....... I just wanted to point out the unsung hero's to you.
~ellie
I know a lot of people will pounce on me for that but I felt the need to say it again.
