Emotional

Somehow I was feeling very emotional today. Some time ago we were invited to take part in an opening for a fund raising campaign for United Way. Or actually, they promised free lunch, so of course I signed up. I had no idea what or who United Way was, or what they were fundraising for... but free lunch sounded good.

So today the lunch was held, and I was almost in tears for the most of it. United Way gathers money for community projects, kids, seniors, the poor - or they actually finance projects, mostly actually done by other organisations like Red Cross and local ones. They showed an emotional video - not meant to be a tear jerker, I'm sure, but it just had that effect on me. Pretty standard stuff - for people who want to contribute they offered payroll deductions, which our employer will match. The goal that was set up by the people organising it inside the company was $8,000, and then our HR manager stood up and said that she was going to take a leadership role and she, as a cancer survivor, was going to donate $1,000 in the course of a year.

That almost did it - her voice was shaking as she was obviously very emotional about it, and I kept thinking about my aunt who died of cancer and how I would never see her again and could hardly keep my tears.

Damnit.

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