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I like... campaigning?
Posted by Brynndn
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10:43 AM
Why yes, yes I do enjoy a good campaign.
A National one.
One for a cause I believe in.
Not a political campaign, thats just silly.
I'm talkin about... CAMPAIGNS.
The latest two I participated in were A Day Without Shoes, for TOMS shoes and then Day of Silence to campaign against the harassment of gay people.
For the first, it was pretty simple. You just... wear nothing on your feet. It's actually kinda weird. I grew up on a farm so I was always barefoot, but because of civilization and domesticity I learned to put shoes on. Gross. And now, after all that conditioning to put on shoes, I didn't wear any one day... and my freakin feet started to hurt. Seriously? There are kids all over without shoes everyday of their life and I can't go one day without them? I make myself sick. But on this day, I also realized we live in too much comfort. As I had my shoes off, I felt... vunerable, exposed. Like at any moment a shard of glass could penetrate my foot and/or maybe I would step in poop or something and get a disease. It was interesting to me that I felt so exposed just by one simple act. However, I felt good about it. The whole idea of the campaign was to make people aware of TOMS shoes and that there are kids with no shoes. See TOMS shoes gives shoes to those kids. For every pair bought, they give. I'm thinking about being a representative next year for them. Here is the website if you wanna learn more: http://cdn2.tomsshoes.com/default14.htm
The next campaign was Day of Silence. Holy crap that was hard. I learned about it through my friend Dusty on facebook. It seems simple... but for people like me that like to talk... DANG! The point of this is very simple though. You don't talk, people figure that out, ask you why, and you hand them a piece of paper that explains why, they can join or find out how they can help your cause. Your cause being to stop harassment of gays, and promote love in the world. Awesome. Here is the website for that: http://dayofsilence.org/index.cfm
Apparently this year, it went very smoothly and there were some amazing stories.
Anyways, I encourage people to get involved in causes and campaigns such as these. Stop sitting like a bump on a log and freakin do something! You aren't helping anyone by being selfish. That's that.
Shalom in the home.
A National one.
One for a cause I believe in.
Not a political campaign, thats just silly.
I'm talkin about... CAMPAIGNS.
The latest two I participated in were A Day Without Shoes, for TOMS shoes and then Day of Silence to campaign against the harassment of gay people.
For the first, it was pretty simple. You just... wear nothing on your feet. It's actually kinda weird. I grew up on a farm so I was always barefoot, but because of civilization and domesticity I learned to put shoes on. Gross. And now, after all that conditioning to put on shoes, I didn't wear any one day... and my freakin feet started to hurt. Seriously? There are kids all over without shoes everyday of their life and I can't go one day without them? I make myself sick. But on this day, I also realized we live in too much comfort. As I had my shoes off, I felt... vunerable, exposed. Like at any moment a shard of glass could penetrate my foot and/or maybe I would step in poop or something and get a disease. It was interesting to me that I felt so exposed just by one simple act. However, I felt good about it. The whole idea of the campaign was to make people aware of TOMS shoes and that there are kids with no shoes. See TOMS shoes gives shoes to those kids. For every pair bought, they give. I'm thinking about being a representative next year for them. Here is the website if you wanna learn more: http://cdn2.tomsshoes.com/default14.htm
The next campaign was Day of Silence. Holy crap that was hard. I learned about it through my friend Dusty on facebook. It seems simple... but for people like me that like to talk... DANG! The point of this is very simple though. You don't talk, people figure that out, ask you why, and you hand them a piece of paper that explains why, they can join or find out how they can help your cause. Your cause being to stop harassment of gays, and promote love in the world. Awesome. Here is the website for that: http://dayofsilence.org/index.cfm
Apparently this year, it went very smoothly and there were some amazing stories.
Anyways, I encourage people to get involved in causes and campaigns such as these. Stop sitting like a bump on a log and freakin do something! You aren't helping anyone by being selfish. That's that.
Shalom in the home.
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