Relay For Life from a DJ’s perspective

I have never been one to know a whole lot about cancer and the things people do to raise awareness for those people who have cancer. Call it a lack of involvement on my part, but the amount of things people do in order to bring this deadly concern to the masses amazes me.

As a member of the general staff of WMCO, Muskingum College Radio, I was tasked with a DJ job. I would be bringing the people who were walking for Relay For Life this past Friday music to listen to while they marched for a good cause.

I did this from midnight to 2 a.m. with sophomore Thomas Pasch, another DJ. We played music and watched as the roughly 40 people who were there at the time kept walking, without stopping, for a good cause.

"I didn't really know a whole lot about Relay For Life,'' said Pasch, who was also not heavily involved until now with the proceedings.

"I really think it's for a great cause," he said. "You walk for 24 hours, because people with cancer have it for 24 hours. You really get to thinking about how people can deal with that."

Only working from midnight until 2 a.m. was difficult, but it was evident to me that I did not have it all that rough. I was just playing music; these people were walking for cancer, something I had never done.

Having lost several family members myself to the disease, I thought that just the notion that people would walk 24 hours for these victims was touching and that it was an activity that should always be embraced.

I would play music again for these people, people who walked for those less fortunate, but maybe next year, someone can fill my shoes and I'll walk instead.