Why I walk

After giving it a great deal of consideration I decided to walk in the breast cancer 3 day walk. This cause is very important to me. Although I don't have breast cancer in my family, I know of 3 phenomenal women who have surrived this fatal disease. In the honor of Ruth Shabazz, Susan Loomis and Pat Heybl I will be walking 60 miles. If they can fight their disease then I can walk 60 miles to help find a cure.
I have also made it a personal goal to walk 1,000 miles prior to the breast cancer walk. I am looking forward to this journey. I know that it will not be an easy road, but I know the rewards in the end will be amazing. I can't wait!
This poem was posted on someone's breast cancer page and I really loved reading it.
There's an empty seat at the dinner table where a mother use to sit.
She's 34 years old, full of life and dreams and two small kids.
There's a young man with a tear in this eye and pink ribbon on his coat, in memory of the only love he'd ever known.
There's a lady looking in the mirror without a single strand of hair, she barely recognizes the woman standing there.
She's waging a silent war against an enemy inside and putting up the fight of her life.
That's why we walk.
We honor them all and that's why we walk.
She lays in a cold small room in a baby-blue paper gown, anticipating what the x-rays might have found.
Then she hears the words that always stop you on a dime and pray that they found it in time.
That's why we walk.
We honor them all and that's why we walk.
For life for love, for one another, for him, for her, there's strength in numbers.
We walk to remember, we walk to celebrate, that's why we walk, leaning on each other, and holding on to faith,
for those who are gone and those who live on.
We honor them all and that's why we walk.