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Friday Jan 25, 2008

Post Pals

I've talked about my sporadic charity giving in a past blog and here's an example of something that's really touched me this week. Although not in any way life threatening, I've had a very small taste of what it's like to be bed bound and that was only for three months when I had a bad bout of glandular fever at the age of 16. The sense of boredom is immense and I remember at the time that one of the main things that got me through those months was to have contact from my friends and family through post, phone calls, and visits.

That's why Vik's latest diary entry had such an effect on me because not only are the children that she's helping though the organisation Post Pals seriously ill, many of them have been bed bound for years and friends have long gone. The realisation of how easy it is to send a card or a small gift to one of those children and reading about how much it's meant to the lives of the children who now have something to wake up for, made me go all weepy inside.

I'm off to the shops today to buy some stickers and a card for a child and hopefully it's something I will do regularly, I can even email one of the children featured on the website. With the growing popularity of emailing and social networking websites, if you've got time to forward a funny joke to friends or to poke and prod someone or send them a message, you've got time to put a massive smile on a little one's face. I'm definitely getting softer as I get older but I guess that's not such a bad thing   

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