I don’t support your pink ribbon. I won’t buy it for $1. I don’t support your yellow ribbon, I won’t buy it for $1. I won’t think that I can throw $1 at something, think good thoughts about it for a moment, then go about my day guilt-free about sad things or feeling that I “did something.”
Of course, I don’t feel guilt in the first place.
If you need to have a ribbon to avoid thinking about mortality, I don’t blame you. Just don’t pretend to me that it does anything besides making you able to get up in the morning, K? Thxbye.
Amen.
Good point. But as a former Christian there’s always lingering guilt for me. The dollar is worth the reprieve… however fleeting or ultimately meaningless. =)
I do knock wood or cross my fingers for the fun of it.
Speaking only for myself, the things along that line that I have chosen to do I approach more as a way to keep mortality in mind, a’momento mori’ if you will, than a way to avoid thinking about it.
I didn’t buy the pink ribbon (well, it wasn’t a ribbon it was something else, but for the sake of arguement let’s leave it simple), thinking that the money spent meant I was ‘doing something’. I bought it in part as a object memorial of my aunt and several friends who have died of breast cancer. In part as a reminder to call/write/pray for (yeah, that last one’s gonna bug you, I know, deal with it) several friends who are currently undergoing treatement for, or who have survived, a variety of different cancers. And lastly, to remind myself that I have this disease in my family gene pool and I really ought to pay a bit more attention to my health in order to live the best and longest life possible.
So what’s my point…I suppose, don’t pretend you know anyones motivation for such purchases unless you’ve actually asked.
On the other hand, I have to concede that I suspect if you did ask, the vast majority of people with magnetic yellow ribbons on their gigundic SUV’s would go ‘huh?’.
Did you see the Jim Lehrer interview with Shrub, where Lehrer asked about shared sacrifice and shrub responded that ‘people sacrifice their peace of mind when they see these horrible acts on tv’, or some such tripe?
Just the other day my dad was commenting on how few yellow ribbon magnets there are on cars these days.
I don’t need people to know what I choose to support anyway. The ribbons are all “look at me and see how wonderful I am to support x.”
How few??
To me they seem to be breeding on bumpers faster than christfish, and I’m in the deep blue Pacific Northwest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8
I’m just pissed because they can’t seem to decide whether the thyroid cancer ribbon is lavender, or periwinkle blue, or some other color. DAMMIT, MY CANCER DESERVES A PRETTY COLOR JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE’S.
(this gave me a good reason to use my gory cancer icon!)
Easy:
Puce.
I’m in Joisey–maybe people here just got more fed up. Or are too apathetic to put new ones on when they fall off the car. Awesome video!
I defer to your superior color-coordination skills.
I’d put up a Puce Ribbon just for you.
aw, thank you! My empty thyroid bed and I are honored.
I love when you say what I didn’t even know I was thinking!