TUESDAY TIDINGS - Giving up "Hope"...

One of our Sister Survivors sent in a link to the National Breast Cancer Coalition's Breast Cancer Deadline website. It's an interesting thing to watch/read. The basic idea is that for years we've had "HOPE" that there would be a cure for breast cancer. In the last decade, there has not been a significant decrease in the number of daily breast cancer deaths - even though there has been lots of time and money pumped into research for a cure. Now, they have decided that hope is not enough - that we need a deadline to come up with a cure. Here are just a few words of explanation from their website:

"Plainly, we need something more powerful than hope.

We didn’t hope our way to the moon. If all we ventured was hope, we’d still be on the ground.

We got to the moon because we set a deadline for getting there. We have never had a deadline for the end of breast cancer. It’s not that we tried and it failed. We’ve never tried. We have never had one. Never.

No date. No goal. No rush. Nothing to hold ourselves accountable to. No one on the hook. No reputations at stake. Is it any wonder we haven’t ended it? How can we possibly achieve a goal if we don’t have one?

Consoled by hope, we keep giving breast cancer more time.

No more.

Today we give up hope. It’s the most optimistic step ever taken in the history of the breast cancer battle.

Today we set a goal. Today we set a deadline. January 1, 2020. The end of breast cancer. Hope is a wish. The deadline is a commitment. Hope says whenever. The deadline says within ten years. What if we fail? We already have. What about pink? It’s time to show our true colors. Ten years is too short? We ended polio in seven."

Here is the link if you'd like to read more or watch the video...

http://www.breastcancerdeadline2020.org/

There is also a huge countdown clock on the site.