“It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn’t matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
It’s 12 : 49 PM on day 1763 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Zachariah 13, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, learn one new thing –Salient [sa·li·ent] adj. 1. Strikingly conspicuous; prominent. “A salient argument.”– and promote my Educate Generations campaign – $3 301 raised so far and I’m working on a new way that people can support this campaign so things are looking great 🙂 .
As you may or may not know today is Malala Yousafzai’s 18th birthday I’ve never met her but through her book, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, and her interviews she taught me more about courage than anybody else on the planet there’s this moment in the book where she says (I’m paraphrasing) I had two choices I could either speak up and die or stay silent and die so I chose to speak up how many of us would speak up about something knowing it could cost us our lives I don’t know if I would but Malala did and that’s why me and others think she is the bravest girl in the world. Happy birthday Malala the world is truly blessed to have you.