Truly inspirational innovation

This poem has been written by a six year old girl with terminal cancer in a New York Hospital

Slow Dance -

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over
(Anonymous author, 2012)

Why is it that that six year old little girl has to think this way she has such an open mind to the world and deserves to live. Innovation is not just about a business and it becoming a success. Innovation is about changing peoples life for the better and one day there will be a cure.  "Pharmaceutical discovery has benefited from a remarkable revolution in technology, from its early beginnings with the introduction of aspirin to the discovery of drugs that target specific genes that cause disease. Today, pharmaceutical innovation looks very different than it did 100 years ago, 50 years ago, or even just 10 years ago." (Innovation.org,2012) because of innovation we will one day find a cure and save life’s.

Anonymous author. (2012). Slow Dance. Available: http://www.cancernet.co.uk/poems.htm. Last accessed 19th January 2012
Innovation.org. (2012). Innovation Today. Available: http://www.innovation.org/index.cfm/InnovationToday/Innovation_Today. Last accessed 19th January 2012.