Carnival? Fun? Not-depressing?
Mar. 27th, 2011 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichAfter two solid days of massive headache*, I finally forced myself to go shopping for food. "Try caffiene" people said, "It helps with headaches." I was out of caffiene. Or, at least, out of Diet Pepsi. So to the local grocery I drove, grumpy and squinting. And while I was there, all the clerks were wearing T-shirts supporting a local fund raiser drive for cancer research.
Under the circumstances, you'd think that I'd be grateful and cheered to see such a thing. But honestly - I'm tired of having cancer, cancer, cancer shoved up my nose. My head tells me that it's a phase and I'll get over it, adding all the other things I'd tell someone who was feeling the same way, but that inner voice merely helps me to keep my grumpy mouth shut in face of such charity and kindness.
You know what I'd like to see, what I'd try to organise if I had a tad more energy and drive? "Carnival for Cancer". Okay, not a catchy title. But I'd like to see a bunch of organisations/groups gather together for, say, a long weekend or two weekends in a row, with a carnival. Ferris wheels, dart tosses, all the things we enjoy doing in the summer. Have other organisations donate prizes for the best activity, and give the carnival-goers (whose tickets would contribute towards the fundraising) tokens to leave at each 'booth' so the most popular ones win the prizes.
That - a weekend of fun - is what I'd like to see someday. Not a marathon, just a day when average people can come and have fun, knowing that they were helping someone at the same time. I wish I had the gumption to try to sell it in my area but my spoons, as it were, are in a depleted state.
*It has reduced itself to one area of my head and is mostly-ignorable now - and boy am I caught up on sleep!
Under the circumstances, you'd think that I'd be grateful and cheered to see such a thing. But honestly - I'm tired of having cancer, cancer, cancer shoved up my nose. My head tells me that it's a phase and I'll get over it, adding all the other things I'd tell someone who was feeling the same way, but that inner voice merely helps me to keep my grumpy mouth shut in face of such charity and kindness.
You know what I'd like to see, what I'd try to organise if I had a tad more energy and drive? "Carnival for Cancer". Okay, not a catchy title. But I'd like to see a bunch of organisations/groups gather together for, say, a long weekend or two weekends in a row, with a carnival. Ferris wheels, dart tosses, all the things we enjoy doing in the summer. Have other organisations donate prizes for the best activity, and give the carnival-goers (whose tickets would contribute towards the fundraising) tokens to leave at each 'booth' so the most popular ones win the prizes.
That - a weekend of fun - is what I'd like to see someday. Not a marathon, just a day when average people can come and have fun, knowing that they were helping someone at the same time. I wish I had the gumption to try to sell it in my area but my spoons, as it were, are in a depleted state.
*It has reduced itself to one area of my head and is mostly-ignorable now - and boy am I caught up on sleep!
