make a difference

This is my page. You can sign up there or go to the main page there, either one. Just do it. Then read to see what you can do to help- and take action!

http://ilovemountains.org/take_action/campaigns/mountains/register/ 9ea7a90d0861d052a2c56ad72230ecb5/

I CAN donate blood. I didn’t think I could, but apparently after 3 years TTP free, you can donate. It has been almost 4 for me, but I have to wait a couple more months cause I had a tattoo about 10 or 10 and a half months ago. I think you have to wait a year after body art to do it. Then, I’ll be ready to go. So, no more body art until I donate once or twice. Then I’m going to have some stuff done hopefully within a short time span (body art). That way about 12 or 13 months later I can donate again. If I space the art out, it’ll take longer to donate again, and I do want to do it again. I don’t want it to be a one time only donation, but not discouraging anyone. Once is better than never, and the more people we get to do it once instead of never, the better. I still don’t know how my body will handle it, but we’ll find out.

What to do. I don’t know what to do. I’m upset about certain things, but I don’t know how to fix them. I’m not brave, but that’s no excuse….fear is never an excuse….and I’m not wise and I’m so confused and at a loss for how to fix things. What can I do? No one cares what I have to say. The only ones my words would touch would be people who already agree with me. No one else would open their minds enough to change their opinions. Everyone is so stubborn. They have to be right. And everyone is so desperate they can’t think about what is right. I want to be brave. I want to help. I don’t know how to help.

We can try to change the laws, but if too few of us care then the law will not help. And while we’re waiting for the decision on the law to be made if we are just waiting on that, then we will be the only ones waiting. The other side will keep doing what they have been doing until the law changes. So more damage keeps getting done the whole time we wait for decisions because we are the only ones waiting- not injustice, not irreparable damage, not the other side. I’m tired of waiting. I don’t know what to do. I’m only one person. I have my words, but if my words fall on deaf ears what good are they? And if my votes get swallowed in a pool of other people’s apathy, desperation, and greed, then what good is my vote? And if the politician’s back out on their words, then what hope do I have? And if I straight out go vigilante, but I’m the only one forming a human barricade or an army of one, then what good does it do?! WHAT GOOD AM I?!

Maybe if I were more brave or just a little crazier, I’d do better. Maybe if I were wise I’d know what do or at least the words to say to change a heart. Maybe if I was a little kid, I could cry about it and people would care. Maybe if I was a major religious leader like the pope, then people would listen. I don’t know enough about certain things to run for politics…..but sometimes I think most politicians don’t know much either. One guy recently said something about trying to keep the contour of the mountains when they cut the tops off , but I thought that was the dumbest thing. A person can not mold a mountain. God can make a mountain. Nature, over many years might decide to make a mountain. In Cherokee myth, I think a giant sacred water beetle built a mountain…....but what fool believes a person can? I got online and found basically the same thing on a site. I had originally thought the first politician was just talking out of his butt, but after reading this I have come to think that some people think “cobbing” up some rocks and mud like a kid building a miniature “mountain” in the yard, constitutes as a mountain. You cannot grow a mountain and you can’t build one. I’m so confused. Oh, and “cobbing” is in the local dialect and it basically means yoou are just half way doing something, just throwing it together, etc. It’s a bad job, I’ll tell ya that. I don’t know where the word comes from, but that is irrelevant to this conversation.

When everyone is against you, what can you do? Please someone tell me what there is to do.

They are trying to kill this young man for killing someone in self defense when he was 17. Apparently, a group of men surrounded them and started verbally and physically assaulting them and one man pulled out a weapon and beat this boy and his friend with it, so this boy fought back and killed his attacker. One of the men who was in the attacking group admitted that they had assaulted the boys and that they had no way to escape and he understood why the boy fought back. Another eye witness also said they could not have escaped. They still want to kill him within a month.
http://www.petitiononline.com/RezaA/

The Petition To Help Her
http://www.petitiononline.com/DL2222/

My Goal On This
http://www.43things.com/things/view/1339666

Her Myspace Page
http://www.myspace.com/savedelara

Some information on Delara, as well as info. on Nazanin who was spared is at http://www.helpnazanin

You can add this goal to your list if you like so that all of those who see your page on 43things will be made aware of the petition to help stop the execution of an innocent woman and strike a blow against rapists. http://www.43things.com/things/view/1231784

They may even execute her!

Sign the petition to help this woman, please and try to get others to sign as well. Self defense is a right, not a crime.

http://www.helpnazanin.com/

I was really hoping to make a difference by putting myself on the bone marrow donor list, but turns out I’m defective. I can’t donate marrow or blood and I’m guessing I can’t donate organs except maybe for research. I was hoping to save the life of someone that actually wanted to live and give them more time to spend with people who actually wanted them around. sighs I know there are other ways to help out, but I’m really dissapointed that I can’t do the bone marrow donor thing.