I would love to fold more but I just can't afford a higher electric bill

Why I fold?
 
Simple. I have been impacted from blood relatives, to friends I have grown up with, to friends I have made in this community. I know he would not want me to say this, but the purchase of the two 4P rigs I made was directly because of wrinvert. He is directly impacted by this cause and with everything in his life, he gives so much back to the people in his life everyday. I have not met Todd in person yet, but he has opened his heart and wallet to many members in this community. He does not ask anything in return, yet he has every right to or could. he has bad days and he has good. No matter what day it is, I still get to game with him, shoot the crap with him on TS and that is what matters.
 
He is humble in his journey in life. I do not believe in GOD but I do know whatever happens, Todd will be taken care of. I consider him a great friend in the little over a year I have known him, through the fun we have had gaming and chatting in TS and on the phone. He would do anything for anyone on this forum and in real life. He has indirectly pushed me, without him knowing it.
I fold for a cure, I fold for many, but I mainly fold for Todd.

Why do I fold?
 
At first it was for evga bucks honestly.  That was about 3 years ago I think it ended after 2 months.  Recently a friend of mines daughter was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma. She's 9 months old and currently receiving chemotherapy after a successful surgery.  I feel so bad for him, his wife and 2 year old son.  I read an article about the folding game figuring out a protein that could help with HIV.  I remembered this community from 3 years ago, hooked up my extra work computer to the external DSL, installed folding@home on it and plugged away.  It's been running for two days and I have no intention of turning it off, especially since this friend of mine is also my boss.
 
Anything I can do while being supportive is what's most important.

I fold for my grandmother who passed many years ago. She had what they simply called at the time "dementia"
Looking back, now I'm sure it was Alzheimer's. Who knows though, really? I may be folding for myself as well.....
And all my Human Race relatives out there (about 7.134 Billion of them!)
 
Marty

Diabetes runs in my family, and actually got me after I started folding again at the age of 25. I have three children, and if folding protein has anything to do with diabetes, like they say it does, then I will fold for my children :)

I just started folding.  Never knew this was something that I could do until I joined this forum.  Always been a technology nut, but wish I knew about this before.  May look into my and my wife's laptops joining the folding mission.  Anyway, my reasons behind this are many.  My family has been ravaged with cancer.  My mother and father both came from big families, 9 and 13 respectively.  Of those 48, including grandparents and spouses, 22 have died from some form of cancer.  My mother was taken with lung cancer because of her smoking addiction.  My father passed from dementia, although they could never diagnose it as Alzheimer's, as I would never want anyone to watch that happen to someone they loved which was a brutal experience.  One that still impacts me today.  My brother-in-law recently passed from his bought with lung cancer in the summer of 2013, as it metastasized to his brain and that is what eventually got him.  Then my wife, who was diagnosed with her illness about two months before my brother-in-law, got breast cancer in 2007.  Her cancer was caught quickly enough and she has been cancer free since she finished chemo in the beginning of 2008.  This disease has impacted me greatly over the years, as I have personally witnessed many different forms dismantle people.  I feel compelled to help.  I have been very aggressive with my recent folding and have been going 100% from my rig for the last few days.  Might reconsider the percentage once I get my electric bill, but the heat from rig is heating my house, although I will doing this for the foreseeable future at some rate.  I must do what I can to help those who might get these diseases in the future or who have any form today.  Fold on!

It's a "battle" Grey Beard that will eventually be won.  We have the most advanced computing power in the history of the world within our reach (in our homes).  So, with you and millions of others who pursue these cures we can and will make a difference.  Welcome to our team and I hope that you will go ahead and take that leap of faith into the battle with us! 

I am all in texinga.  I am here do add to the ranks and do what I can for the long-term.  Glad to be part of team.

Good stuff, glad to have you with us.  Don't be shy either.  We have a great team of friendly people who are very talented at getting the most performance from whatever you unleash on Folding, Crunching or whatever form of Distributed Computing you choose. 

I honestly did not think much of the people I know when I started folding this past weekend. I was merely, to tell the truth, looking at Stanford's website in preparation for the harrowing university applications that will begin in just a few months.

As a high school student, I have gotten to know countless fellow classmates who struggle with autism. A delightful yet hapless boy in fifth grade, i remember reading to him every week. He was so isolated; every communication was futile, like a ping pong ball thrown at a brick wall. Countless others, all to differing extents but all living the same daily struggle. Laughed at and even shunned for their feeble grunts and cries and attempts at speech, it's just unfathomable.

Then there are the cancers. Every day, people talk about their friends, family members, 18th cousins 3 times removed who unsuccessfully fought lung, prostate or testicular cancer. Only when my aunt had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer did I really snap out of the dull disinterest that i had towards the illness. It was a scare alright, and although she is doing well, i an folding for her and the twelfth grade student in my school who is undergoing chemo for Hodgkin's lymphoma at this very moment.

I can't promise that i can break records with my budget-limited computing, but that certainly doesn't mean I can't try my best.