We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Unknown

It’s 6: 45 PM on day 431 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,  feed myself All-Bran Flakes with banana for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck – prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature,  feed myself rice and curry for lunch and tweet about my campaign some more– still no luck.

Today I was doing something – I forgot what – and it suddenly occurred to me how many people help me every week so from this week onwards every Friday – except for when I’m in India (8 December-2 January) during which time I will not be active on this blog (Jenelle Ramsami – a model who just happens to be hearing impaired – will be sharing her experiences on a ‘Guest Posts’ page that I will create) – I am going to list everyone who’s helped me – both in my real and online life – from one Friday to the next (if you’ve helped me in any way on any given week and I don’t to mention you please know that it is not intentional) . Take a look:

Gratitude Weekly November 18, 2011

• Thank you God for always being here for me.
• Thank you mommy for helping me do things I have not yet learned how to do.
• Thank you daddy for paying for everything I need.
• Thank you Neethu –my sister – for kicking me in the butt when I feel sorry for myself.
• Thank you Kevin  –my brother – for carrying the  laptop from the bedroom to the dining room every morning so that I can use it.
• Thank you Amanda  – our housekeeper  – for helping me when mommy and daddy are at work.
• Thank you Christian Hollingsworth, Chrissy Pappas, Kimber Beach and Michael Carr for their donations to my campaign.
• Thank you Stan Faryna, Kurtiss Locker, Nancy Scott,  Ramon Thomas and Georgina Pazzi for retweeting about my campaign.
• Thank you Patricia Singleton, Justina Valentine, Roy Pearson, Bonnie, RockstarsTribe, Tim, Laura, Polished Girlz, Pali Raj, Brian Elliot, Colette Caddle, Amy Hale, Start Your Novel, Khanh and Peter Tran, Stan Faryna and Susan Mazza for tweeting/retweeting links to my blog posts.

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!