If you could save the lives of three people and earn yourself a couple of cookies and a juice drink by spending less than an hour of your time, wouldn’t you do it? Most of us, in thinking over the proposition, would say Yes, sign me up! But in actuality, as Ira Riklis can tell you based on statistics, fewer than one in 14 of us actually take steps to do so?
We’re talking, of course, about donating blood. And one of the top two reasons (along with “I never thought about it”) people give for not doing so is that they “don’t like needles.” While, like most of us, Ira Riklis may not much care for needles, he can tell you—based on his many years of making regular blood donations—that the needles don’t hurt. In fact, nothing about the process hurts, any brief discomfort lies only in our anticipation of the event. So put that out of you mind and find a time—soon—to save a few lives. It’s the easiest way to be a hero with almost no effort on your part!