UNITY NOW! UNITY FOREVER! What Will It Take?

Definition of Unity from the online dictionary:

The state or quality of being one; singleness.

The state or quality of being in accord; harmony.

One of the best groups/communities I have seen in the past 4 years that really embodies UNITY is LIVESTRONG.  From what I have seen working with them for the past few years is there is little arguing about which type of cancer is worse. Doesn't matter whether it breast, colon, brain or any other type cancer is cancer and it is all bad.

Then we come to diabetes which has been my primary focus for the past 3 1/2 years. All there has been is arguing about which type is worse, type 1 or 2 or others, there are more. The arguing is so unneeded in this community where the disease is now a pandemic in the world. What is needed is unity not dissension.

About 2 1/2 months ago I left the diabetes community on Facebook and pretty much all over to take a break from the stress of what was going on and to take a look on the inside from the outside. What I saw bothered me. After 3 1/2 years it looked like all of our work and preaching hadn't done a thing. No one had changed their attitude about the types of diabetes and getting together to find a cure. Then a miracle happened just the other day.

Hang on though I want to cover one thing. A Cure. Everyone wants a cure for some disease. There are so many in the world we need cures now but there are so many obstacles. the thing is if we unite as friends and supporters for each other we can get to a point where we can demand answers, get answers and make things happen. Apart we are nothing, together we can and will win.

Back to diabetes and the lost communities, as I call them. Imagine with 360 million people in the world diagnosed and another 600 million walking around with diabetes, almost 1 billion people we are talking here, just imagine if we all came together to demand answers? Imagine if we all came together to demand a cure now? Imagine?

Anyway UNITY is important and I have had my say. Oh wait, about the miracle. Just recently I have seen to groups coming out of the closet and endorsing our philosophy of unity. I was amazed and shocked. Not that we received credit per se but seeing them write and post about coming together I knew our words and efforts have been heard. It was a great feeling to know people have been listening and maybe it took time but they are working on it. I am proud of everyone that is making the effort.

Thanks

Mark