to be a part of the big picture & make a difference...

“the two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” 
(Mark Twain)

...last year i wrote about something that was seriously funny a.k.a. laughfest which gilda's club hosts to allow us to be reminded that those that are suffering from cancer need to not only treat the physical being but also the mental/emotional being...so as this event kicks off they come up with a record to try & break, rubber chicken throwing, most people doing the chicken dance & this year, the most people gathered together wearing a fake mustache...

...so am i writing to tell you that they broke this record & it was the most amazing thing ever??...nah, but they did break the record by quite a few hundred...but as i stood in the crowd watching all these people of all ages come together for this purpose of breaking a world record, i thought why show up, why come out in the cold & stand in line to put on a fake mustache...i know people stand behind the cause but it is also a feeling inside (most humans) where we want to be a part of the bigger picture...we want to leave our mark; so that we can say i was a part of that movement, that cause, that record...no matter how big or small, we all want to be remembered in some way shape or form...

...and for many that means helping the unfortunate, savings lives and becoming a doctor, entertaining people either through the stage, the big screen or a novel...& for some it is raising kids to make society a better place; or maybe you write a blog in hopes that someone will read it and for that moment you make your mark...however what we all must remember that no matter the record, the event, the movement, or the path our mark is left it is just left in way we sometimes don't see but it's there...

...so be a part of the record, be a part of the event, save a life, write a book, raise some kids...pick your path & make your mark...


as ghandi once put it, "be the change you wish to see in the world..." or rather leave the mark you want to leave...