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Day 2346: My Evolving Relationship with my Elders

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How we treat our elders is a reflection of the people we grow up to be – that’s what I’ve realized.

 

It’s 11 :  38 AM on day 2346 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray,  read John 3: 16. set my weekly and daily goals – lots to do this week and today –  and learn a new word – Mellifluous [mel·lif·lu·ous] adj. Sweet or musical; pleasant to hear. “She had a mellifluous voice.”

 

Today I realized that how we treat our elders is a reflection of the people we grow up to be my parents and I often butt heads on a variety of issues but as I’ve aged I’ve grown in reverence of them because I’ve realized that no two people in the world want better for me and my siblings than they do so now even when I disagree with their methods I so appreciate their intention which is always and forever to protect and help me and my siblings.

 

Day 726

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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” ~ Elizabeth Hardwick

It’s  5 : 26 PM on day 726 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, drink milk  by myself,  publish my Disability of the Day feature, listen to music,  feed myself  bread and baked beans  for breakfast, hang out with my sister and her friend and  feed myself rice and curry for lunch

This week is National Book Week in South Africa and in honour of that I’m sharing with you two of my favourite books and why I love them (you can see which other books I’ve read over the years at My Book Shelf). Take a look:

Before I read this book I would interact with people’s labels and not with people as human beings but now when  I interact with people I do so knowing that I am neither superior nor inferior to them because at  the end of the day we are all human beings so it would be fair to say this book changed my life.

 

 

 

 

Reading about President Obama’s life I learned that everybody has to start somewhere and that’s something I will carry with me for the rest of my life.

 

 

 

 

 

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