I feel this way because I know we can do better and have great potential to do better for the world. We did and still do have a great opportunity here to make the world a better place & save lives in the process. In the words of Helen Keller:
As a lot of you know * I attempted to start a new trending topic for what I thought was an amazing idea: to turn UpVotes into charity.
*Thank You to all those who supported this at the beginning & for all the kind words!
I knew that there would be skeptics and most defiantly cynics on here that would demand proof and question my good will. So I donated $1k to St. Jude's myself to show that I was serious. It felt pretty amazing to be able to just go onto their website and without hesitation donate that much money. Although I got much support and love from a lot of you out there on Steemit, the posts quickly got buried and It lost any chance of trending. I even imagined bringing a great big check into St. Jude's personally.
So again, i'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
So here are the final results:
**Charity Totals**
184 UpVotes
but only $21.36
https://steemit.com/steemitforacause/@blueorgy/please-take-a-moment-to-upvote-my-recent-post-don-t-let-a-beautiful-opportunity-pass-us-by
263 UpVotes
sadly only $6.85
https://steemit.com/steemitforacause/@blueorgy/thanks-to-steemit-i-was-able-to-donate-usd1000-and-will-donate-all-steemdollars-earned-from-this-post-to-st-jude-children-s
164 UpVotes
a meager $152.90
https://steemit.com/donations/@blueorgy/i-will-donate-every-steemdollar-earned-from-this-post-to-st-jude-children-s-research-hospital
I'll leave it up to you, I can donate this now and post the confirmation page or we can try to get these posts rolling again. I will of course continue to add up the totals and donate all of it, including this post.
Have a great rest of your morning, day, evening, or night!
Blue