The outcome of a conversation depends not on what is said but rather what is heard – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 6 : 20 PM on day 503 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, drink coffee by myself, go to church,  feed myself  Idli –   a south Indian savory cake popular throughout India – and Sambar – a dish common in South India and Sri Lankan Tamil cuisines, made of toor dal – for breakfast, pray, read Genesis 14 as part of my ongoing quest to learn more about the Bible,   prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, prepare and publish my Kid of the Week feature, drink water by myself from a glass –  I was SO SO proud of myself because I could not do that a few months ago – tweet with people, listen to music, watch TV,  feed myself rice and curry for lunch and tweet some more.

This morning in church the reverend talked about how we are constantly being blessed – the sermon was titled Living the Blessing – and how someone even saying that they’ll pray for you is a blessing in that moment I remembered how many times I snubbed people when they said they’d pray for me because I thought they were only saying that because I was in a wheelchair and I was embarrassed just goes to show something said with positive intention can be dangerous when heard with negative perception. Does everything you say get taken the wrong way?

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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!