HELLO MY DEAREST ONES!

 

I’m sure all of us have watched on the news or heard it from the media about the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Why don’t we DO SOMETHING? I’ve taken up the challenge at my university, I am going to JUMP off a plane to SAVE THE CHILDREN! (Bruno Mars will only go so far in jumping in front of a train). I believe this challenge is a great opportunity to help those Japanese children to recover from the devastating tsunami and earthquake.

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-appeal.htm

We grew up in a good state, swarming with arms that were raised for attention, for a balloon or sticker. But when these Japanese children who did not choose to be in their current state, put their arms up, they are really asking for HELP. How do we help? Where do we go? The whole Japanese nation is down, you can probably help one person, but you can’t help the whole nation.

 

‘We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.’ Charles R. Swindoll  

 

Each time I was given that response, I had an awful gut feeling, because there is a point. Each time someone passes with a bucket with a Japan Tsunami Appeal label, I feel insecure in giving my money away because 80% chance it probably ends up in their pockets. But does that mean we should just sit here and watch? Following the words of Helen Keller, ‘I cannot do everything for I am only ONE, but I will not refuse to do something, for I am SOMEONE.’

 

So I have made up my mind, I am going to do SOMETHING and I need your support and help. I know that when it comes to fundraising and charity, people get really tight with their money and they just give me their spare change. Why is it that you spend your entire income in a LV store, make-up, high tea, a new wardrobe, on a round of drinks at a club, accessories etc but not spend the same amount in saving the lives of our future generation?!

 

I know for some, it sounds insane, but by living overseas, I’ve learnt to see things from a different perspective, I am going to ask you to see things this way. When you click that button, I want you to spend your money like you would in a LV store, in that club like you’re buying me drinks, in a department store like you would buy me a new fragrance, in Tiffany’s like you would buy a new chain, in fine dining like you’ve finished a degustation course, I want you to spend your money like you would on my birthday! I came to realization at just how spoilt I was in the past. I am overwhelmed with gratitude that I have met you and the times we have spent together.

 

By being abroad this year, I really want to do something different, I want to do a good cause, I really want to help these children do what we have done in our childhood. So please give me your support, I don’t want you to view it as donating, I want you to see it as a way of gifting…