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Coins
So, I’m a part of this club on campus called “Interact” and we did a school-wide event called “Coin Wars”. Basically, for every coin you put in, you get + points and for every bill you put in, you get minus points. If you were to really hate someone in another class, you could sneak into their classroom and put a dollar bill into their milk jug. We had this going on for two weeks, and our grand total was… $1480.04. This means that we can buy 83 biosand water filters and we can provide 453 people with access to clean water.
That’s not the real point of my blog though (I was just boasting). We spent 3 days counting and sorting the coins and then one of the other officers brought up the idea of how many famous people might have touched these coins. We had coins from almost all the time periods; 1914, 1924, 1965, 2005, etcetera. Martin Luther King Jr. could have used one of the quarters; John F. Kennedy could have used one of the pennies; Eleanor Roosevelt might have gone shopping with the dimes. The ideas are endless!
Every coin has its own story and history, but we can only imagine. Oh, the things we could learn from these coins…
TWLOHA: To Write Love On Her Arms
Tomorrow I’m going to write “LOVE” on my arms in big, bold, fat, juicy, sexy (running out of adjectives), letters that only a Sharpie pen can create. I’m going to wear a short sleeve t-shirt no matter what the weather is like tomorrow. Why? No, it is not because I’ve finally gone insane. November 13 (tomorrow) is the second annual To Write Love on Her Arms Day.
As someone who suffers from depression and has struggled with suicidal thoughts, i think this is an absolutely wonderful idea. I would do it once a month if it meant raising awareness on the dangers and how severe this disease really is. Depression and suicide have an impact on everyones’ life, whether it’s through having depression, or knowing someone who suffers from the disease or knowing someone who has committed suicide. It’s such a simple thing to do. If you can dress up for spirit week at your school, i think you can take the time to write LOVE on your arm. Its time to stand up and get the word out. Maybe someday there will be a cure for this, instead of just a treatment that could potentially make it worse. It takes just thirty seconds to write four letters. I challenge you to stand up and speak out! - the Facebook page
This event has sentimental meaning to me because when I was ten, my brother tried to commit suicide. I’m pretty open with it nowadays because I think that I’ve finally moved past it and I can finally use it as a learning experience. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right (it sounded nicer in that Kanye West song)? It’s a long shot, but maybe if someone had been there with love on their arms when my brother needed it, he wouldn’t have done the things that he did (I love you Charlie). I want people to know that I understand depressed and suicidal thoughts, and that they can talk to me no matter what it’s about.
You can find out more about TWOLHA at the Facebook page (if you have Facebook) or the actual website:To Write Love on Her Arms.
It doesn’t take too long to write LOVE on your arms. I’d say… fifteen seconds maximum (well, depending on how artistic you’re going to be with it). Do it to for the people you know that have committed suicide or suffer from depression. Do it for the people at school that might be suffering from depression. Do it for the people that you will never know because they have taken their own lives.
Spread the word. Stop the bleeding.
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