We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

It’s 7: 28 PM on day 438 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, drink coffee  by myself, prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck today but Mary made a donation of $25 last night   – thanks Mary :)–  feed myself chicken biryani for lunch, go to physiotherapy and tweet about my campaign some more–still no luck.

This morning laying in bed it occurred to me that I have nobody to talk to about the things I’m going through – my mom says that she understands what I am going through and how hard I have to try to do the simplest things but she doesn’t not really if she did she wouldn’t tell people that I do nothing when we go visiting, my dad he barely talks to me because he doesn’t see me as a human being, my sister and brother have their own lives and think I want them to feel guilty for the fact they can walk whenever I talk to them about the challenges I face and my extended family I don’t talk to them much about my trials and tribulations because they really would not know what to say – but then I realized that I would always have me and that I guess is my message to you guys be your own biggest fan because at the end of the day no matter how much you love your family members and friends and no matter how much your family members and friends love you, you are all you’ve got. Do you invest more in your relationships than you can afford to lose?

Gratitude Weekly November 25, 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 to my physiotherapist for giving me a hard time for not exercising
• Thank you Mary  for the donation to my campaign yesterday evening.
• Thank you Tilla Brook, Pali Raj, Saul Fleischman, Panos Fellas, M. Illani Manshoor, and Samantha Bangayan, for retweeting about my campaign.
• Thank you  Patricia Singleton, Justina Valentine, RockstarsTribe,  Brian Elliot, Colette Caddle, Amy Hale,  Stan Faryna  Susan Mazza,  Gene J. Mikulka, Samantha Bangayan and Michelle for tweeting/retweeting links to my blog posts.
• Thank you to Margot and Michelle –her mom – for creating and emailing me this blog’s new banner respectively (it will be uploaded ASAP)

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!