People can’t give you what they do not have– that’s what I learned today 🙁

It’s 5 : 08  PM on day 523 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, make entries in my Gratitude Journal and Diary respectively – I was too tired to do it yesterday – pray, read Genesis 34 as part of my ongoing quest to learn more about the Bible,   prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature,  drink tea by myself, feed myself an egg sandwich for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck  – raise disability awareness in India using Twitter – I went to India with my family last year and felt really stigmatized and I swore that I would do my best to educate people there- play with dough – it’s good exercise for my right hand which doesn’t work as well as my left – and continue raising disability awareness.

This morning my mom asked my dad and siblings if I could go with them to the gym the next time they went (my mom is of the opinion that I should get out more) everybody said no which I didn’t mind I mean really what was I going to do in a gym but my mom was pissed off in retrospect I realize that she had such a strong reaction because she expected my father to love me unconditionally regardless of my disability whereas I had no such expectation because I understood early on that asking my father to love me unconditionally was just like asking a bankrupt man to give me money and made my peace with it. Do you need from people what they cannot give you?

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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!