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Day 113

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing” – Aristotle

It’s 8: 44 PM on day 113 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for  most of the day – I went above and beyond today –   I am SO proud of myself 🙂 – feed myself Chapati – an unleavened flatbread – and chicken curry for bunch, watch the 3rd Test between India and South Africa – today was India’s day but we’ll do better tomorrow I just KNOW it 🙂 – feed myself Fish fingers  for dinner and   exercise for 5 minutes.

Yesterday we were at my uncle’s house and I was telling my cousin about something that someone had said to me on Twitter and he said why are you always on Twitter don’t you have anything better to do and even though what he said stung a little bit I realized that nothing he or anybody else said about me mattered because I knew who I was.  Do you crumble in the face of criticism? 🙂

Day 106

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde

It’s 6: 54 PM on day 106 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Batura – deep fried bread – and chicken curry  for  breakfast,  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – still no luck 🙁 – wheel myself from the dining room to the sitting room – it barely took me two minutes this time – I am SO proud of myself 🙂 –     feed myself plain yoghurt  for lunch – weird I know LOL 🙂 – watched the 2nd Cricket between South Africa and India,  exercise for 15 minutes – my mother almost broke my hips LOL 🙂 – and    feed myself pizza  for dinner.

I  never understood what people  meant when they said  be yourself    but  after watching the game today and seeing how the South Africa players played in the face of defeat I realize that being yourself is having the courage to stay true to who you are even when things don’t work out exactly according to plan. Have you ever changed yourself to fit into a particular situation or to be liked by a particular person? 🙂