looking for a miracle.

Honestly, I don't know how some people continue on year after year with their gung-ho volunteerism the way they do. Because it frustrates the hell out of me and it is only my third year on the committee for a group that anyone who knows me and is coming here from one of my former blogs is well aware of.

We all know that cancer is devastating people. More and more people around us. Every day. So why would a group that is designed to raise funds specifically to: help aid in the research of fighting this disease and to create helpful programs for the people who are fighting it and the caregivers who are helping them, why would this group have a difficult time keeping people and finding new people to work on it?

I'm so very frustrated right now. It's like we are fighting a losing battle. Which is of course how you feel frequently anyway in the cancer field, but I didn't feel that way when I got on board and we were growing the fundraising campaigns and the big event itself. But now, even as we know more and more people who are being diagnosed and more and more people who are dying, we can't get people to commit to anything. The money is falling away. Volunteers aren't giving as much time or energy to the cause. And I don't get it! Because I know that all of the people around me have more people in their lives that are being diagnosed and dying too! So what is it? Who quits at a time like this? Well, I'll tell you. My frustration is making me want to. :( But I cannot. Because that would make me no different than those about whom I am complaining.

So I continue on. And just try to make improvements to the event and hope it will help to draw people in. And hope for a big turn around one of these days. Or a miracle. Or something.