I love to talk about moving from consuming to contributing; about focusing more on others than on yourself; about being willing to give.
My friend Jessica sent me an email a little while back. An email inviting me to add myself to the Donor Registry for the National Marrow Donor Program. I have to confess that I desperately wanted to simply hit the Delete key, sending the mail into oblivion and removing one email from the pesky dozens that had invaded my inbox.
I could not.
A little voice inside whispered to me. “Are you really a contributor?”
I fought back, “it sounds incredibly inconvenient and potentially painful!”
The voice continued, “You’re ‘inconvenience’ could save someone’s life.”
I was out of arguments. I took a couple minutes and filled out some information online, a couple days later I had a kit in the mail. This morning I gave them a tissue sample.
It wasn’t that difficult.
They had provided 4 little Q-tip looking things and I simply swabbed the inside of my cheeks with each one. I put them in the envelop, sealed it, and sent it off in the mail.
I have no idea when, if or how I …
