Fight for the Cure

Fight for the cure, and stand up for the weak. Give the gift of hope, and inform others on how we can beat this disease. There are so many ways to contribute to a foundation or cause, you don’t have to donate hundreds of dollars or give body parts. All you need to donate is your time and care. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation needs all the help it can get and its goal is to raise awareness and one day find a cure. This post is not to inform you about this foundation, when it was founded and all that other biographical information, this post is about why it’s important to me, and why it should be important to you. When it comes to my political engagement with this cause, it comes down to more than just politics. Being political will not find a cure, and as for my political engagement, is that the point? I consider informing the people I love that this is an issue, is as political as I need to be. I engage myself with this foundation because breast cancer is a disease that has hit close to home, and fighting that disease is an engagement I’m ready to step up for.

When life throws a curve ball, we can’t strike out. Leading a life filled with settling isn’t a life that I’m ready to live. Don’t settle for the problems and hurtles we may have to face; this activist project has so many support systems both political and social. Being a small part of both, is a small contribution, for a big cause. Chuck Klosterman is a man I have mentioned before, he is rude and honest and has no filter to his thoughts. In his book “Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” he ends one captivating chapter with this line “That’s all I want, and that’s why I can’t have it”(Klosterman 12). He’s wrong. If this is all I want, to have engaged in a cause that helps me better understand my family’s struggles, then I’ll have it. No matter what gets in the way.

Works Cited

"Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: About CBCF." Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: Breast Cancer Awareness, Support and Charity. Web. 22 Nov. 2009. .

Klosterman, Chuck. Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs a low culture manifesto. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.