Buy some time for Ada!

Buy some time for our friend Ada Cuciuc!

Every moment in our lives is precious. We all know that and too often ignore it. We are also prone to see more often how others squander time than how we do it ourselves. It’s simply human.

Some of us are met with adversity so brutal that it creates a sort of crossroads. Major health issues, accidents, the death of a person dear, or a major personal failure all have this shocking quality.

Unlike in our daily grind, these events stop us in our tracks and we discover time. The time we lost, the time that can never be recovered. The time we don’t have.

We discover how finite, how fleeting, how irrecoverable time is. Not just the time we lost! All our life! Even those movements we most cherished and enjoyed, those that appear infinite.

We discover that, often, it’s other people that make these moments most valuable to us. Knowledge and truth too!

We all have people that are significant to us. And we all have some that we shared important moments with family, friends, coworkers, mentors. At times we need their help, while at other times, it’s them who need ours.

Ada Cuciuc is our friend. More than any of us, she understands how incredibly important time is. She has learned this brutally and suddenly last year when doctors told her she has glioblastoma. Look it up if you need to. It’s a time-eating disease like no other. We cannot cure it! We cannot offer magical medical solutions that Ada can access.

However, we can help her in other ways. We can help Ada buy time. She needs every second of it. For one, because to her, time is the most precious and rare of basic needs. Also, by doing so, we can help her fight back, so maybe, just maybe, a solution may appear in the near future.

Ada has helped many of us directly or indirectly. She inspired and made us dream. We envied her courage and determination, and, yes we envied her for all those incredible moments made possible by personal will and discipline combined with sea, sun, and wind.

Ada is strong and fiercely independent so these circumstances, when she is dependent on others, make her uncomfortable. But as we all know, Ada is also the one among us that believes most in the power of communities. Communities like the ones she touched volunteering in ghettos, doing policy work, and managing non-profit shoestring finances.

To cut it short: she does not have time, but she has us. We are her community. If we pool our resources together, we can help her use this time as efficiently as possible.

We can help her with preserving dignity, quality of life, and the ability to make freely critical life choices.

In concrete terms, the money we raise through this campaign would allow Ada to with a decent life in a city that offers her medical condition for a very severe medical challenge. It would offer her the mental resilience she needs so she doesn’t worry about accommodation, food, and treatments. It would offer her opportunities to do additional immunotherapy treatments that are not covered by medical insurance. In the end, it would offer her more time to be happy.

I will not take more of your time, but to say that every second counts.

If you wish, you can direct your donation also here:

Ada-Maria Cuciuc

AT08 2011 1848 3958 9200

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Text by our friend Andrei B Tarnea.