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Day 258

You can’t be present if you’re still holding onto the dreams of the past – that’s what I learned today 🙁

It’s 7: 25 PM on day 258 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Batura and baked beans for breakfast, publish my Kid of the Week feature, feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign –no luck today but Stan (@Faryna) made a donation to my cause yesterday for a record THIRD time – thanks Stan 🙂 – attend a farewell party thrown in honor of the uncle and aunty who came to visit us yesterday – they are retiring and moving back to India – it was the longest 2 hours of my life LOL 🙂 – brush my teeth once more and feed myself a banana for dinner.

Today I was in the bathroom and I said to my mother with a laugh how about what that aunty said yesterday and my mother responded what’s so funny you will be healed all you need to do is believe and it occurred to me that the reason my mother couldn’t accept me as I was, was because she still held out hope that one day I would wake up and be able to walk. Are you blind to the possibilities of the future because you’re still holding onto the dreams of the past?

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!

Day 178

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia

It’s 9: 57 PM on day 178 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself fish fingers and fries for breakfast – my mother didn’t know that I had also given up fish for lent and since I couldn’t make myself anything else I  just ate it but that’s okay I know God forgives me and now that my mom and I are on the same page I doubt  it will happen again :)– tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – no luck  – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my campaign some more – still no luck – feed myself a grilled cheese sandwich  for dinner and watch TV.

As you may know I am not one for living in what could’ve been because I believe that when you live in all that could’ve been you miss all that is but today I was really having a hard time with the fact that from the moment I got up in the morning to the time I went to bed at night I needed help with something so just this once I allowed myself to write about my fantasy rather than my reality take a look:

5 Things I would do if I could walk

  • Bungee jump
  • Skydive
  • Abseil
  • Ride on horseback
  • Shark cage dive