Etiquette
What's your passion?
I was just reading an article online about a White Sox player and his wife who picked up the vet bill for a stray dog that was found with a hunting arrow in her side. The article goes on to discuss how they are very active in the local animal rescue community. Then I started reading the comments.... people are bashing him for using his money towards animal rescue and not something 'better' such as kids with cancer, malnourished babies, etc (these were examples they used). I don't understand how people can manage to find a negative in a postive story.
What makes their passion more important than his? What are your passions? Where did your interest for it come from? I'm just curious.
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Re: What's your passion?
That's horrible that they would criticize him for that.
i have much more compassion for sick animals than people.
My passions: Helping children in bad circumstances. Child abuse, health of children, organizations for kids...you name it. Helping those who can't help themselves, I suppose.
Where did it come from? I'm not sure. I come from a family of helpers. My dad is a therapist, too. My mom works with developmentally disabled adults, my brother is a program manager for a residential treatment center for kids and my little brother is going to school right now for social work.
I think it's just in my blood.
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I'm glad that there are people like him who donate to animal rescue the like if they are financially able to. I would donate more if I could.
After rescuing that puppy in Bali, I donate to the Bali Street Dog Fund. H's big thing is a charity/orphanage in Peru that helps kids with illnesses and deformities that cause their parents to have to abandon them since they can't afford the medical care. I don't know what my "passion" is, but I do donate to causes that I believe in, like the local food banks and homeless shelters, battered women shelter, and retirement funds for priests.
He had a cat who I SWEAR kept him alive after my gramma died, which was his motivation.
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[QUOTE]I'd love to find out if those commentators on that article are actually donating to those "worthier" causes or just spouting hot air.
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]
My thoughts exactly.
I would love to volunteer to be a "baby holder" type person in a newborn or neonatal unit. I always want to do the hats and blankets to donate to preemies (there's a couple of organizations), but I'm too slow.
Now that there's a premature infant in my family, that might stimulate me to do some more with it.
Fish, I always wanted to be in social work/psychology. I didn't because a) I didn't want to go to grad school and b) because I didn't think I'd be able to leave my work at home at the end of the day. I don't know how you, my uncle, and others like you do it.
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Unless you're giving to a charity that promotes killing people or animals I have no problem with who people give money too. There are countless charities and different groups of people and animals in the world that need all the help they can get. Who is anyone to judge where you give the money to? Even if there was a charity that helped prisoners with cancer or something, I still wouldn't care if people donated there if it meant something to them. It wouldn't be my choice, but who am I to judge who someone wants to help out?
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And LC, you can cook me food anytime. ANY. TIME.
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LC I know what you mean. I love cooking good food for people. I would have parties all the time if it meant I could cook for people. Too bad we don't have enough friends here to have a party. And that I won't cook big meals for myself.
[QUOTE]I agree! Let them be protected against pregnancy for the love of god! And LC, you can cook me food anytime. ANY. TIME.
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And while we are at it - lets get those puppies and kitties fixed up too. I really think that fundraiser I went to on Friday changed my entire mental framework on pet ownership.
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Well, you have my admiration for what you do.
Do not mess in the affairs of dinosaurs because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
I love you Missy. Even though you are not smart enough to take online quizzes to find out really important information. ~cew
I love him, too. Like crazy.
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[QUOTE]I am a huge animal lover and am usually more likely to contribute to animal charities than people charities, yet it makes me sad when people claim to like animals more than people. I feel sad that they don't know that many good people in their life to at least love equally as much as animals.
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I wouldn't say I like animals better than people (though it depends on the day) but I think I feel for animals, and children, more than adults. I think it's their innocence.
I've always had a greater problem reading a book or watching a movie where animals died. I recall a murder mystery I read where an elderly woman was murdered, and as a result her dogs were locked outside in the cold and died of exposure. I was far more heartbroken for the dogs than the woman.
My passion, and this may seem weird, is racial equality. I'm a blonde hair, blue eyed Swedish chick from MN so I've never been on the receiving end of true racism but I have best friends who have and I dont think most people realize how alive and well racism still is. It makes me so sad and sick to see it in 2010.
"To be white in America, is to not have to think about it." Im not all crazy white priviledge lady or anything, but its very easy to be white in most of America- and Im guessing Canada too and I just wish more people realized it and were more socially sensitive.