Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. – Edgar Rice Burroghs

It’s 7: 26 PM on day 366 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, drink Milo – chocolate milk – in a glass,  practice writing by hand, feed myself a peanut butter sandwich  for breakfast – it was funny I actually used a fork and knife to eat the sandwich because I was determined to learn how to use a fork and knife –  feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck –  watch TV, feed myself spaghetti bolognaise for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

This morning I asked my mother to get me Milo – chocolate milk – in a glass and she did as such but while I was drinking it she said it would have been easier for you to drink it from a mug and I responded so as to reassure her with something along the lines of I practiced doing this yesterday and she said with pity in her voice something I only usually hear from strangers pavaam – in translation from our native tongue of Malayalam it means poor thing – I don’t know what I expected but I know it wasn’t pavaam because pity is wasted on me why am I telling you this to remind you not to pity people because whatever our abilities we are all equal in our humanity. Are you silent and ashamed?

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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!