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Day 1546: My reason for giving

Giving does more for the giver than it does for the receiver – that’s what I keep realizing.

It’s 12 : 45 PM on day 1546 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Isaiah 31, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, feed myself Idli and Sambar for breakfast and promote my Educate Generations campaign –on $1 090 but I’m grateful to be this far so far 🙂 – continue reading Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult – we had another power outage – and continue promoting my campaign – still on $1 090 but that’s okay things could be worse.

Today I was thinking about why I give and I came to the conclusion that I give because I want everyone to have as much or more than me I truly believe that opportunity shouldn’t be a lottery of birth.

Day 1169: Poverty exists because there isn’t enough money?

Day 1007: Equality for the disabled a fallacy

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Most of society see “disabled” people as less than that’s why they feel like they can do whatever they want and get away with it – that’s what I keep learning.

It’s 2 : 52 PM on day 1 007 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, pray, read Deuteronomy 24, publish my Disability of the Day feature, prepare and publish my Kid of the Week feature, tweet about my campaign – no luck today but Rema Mathews made a $50 donation to my campaign last night (thanks again aunty)- listen to music – I love Us Against The World by Westlife whenever I hear it I think of my sister when people are blatantly staring at me I would be most likely to ignore it whereas my sister would be most likely to look them in the face and say what are you staring at – and practice typing with both hands.

A few days ago I read What About Alex on Emma’s Hope Book – a post about how society is outraged when a parent kills his/her child and sympathetic when the child happens to have special needs – and I realized once again that society doesn’t value the lives of “disabled” people as much as they value the lives of “non-disabled” people why else would the media portray a woman who stabbed her autistic son to the death as the victim.

Day 232

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Feeling guilty that you have things that other people don’t have won’t change anything– that’s what I learned today

It’s 8: 08 PM on day 232 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a polony sandwich for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – no luck – continued writing my novel – I started last year and have every moment of it so far 🙂 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, watch TV and feed myself Batura – deep fried bread – for dinner.

Today I was feeling a little hungry so I asked my mom to go get me something from the kitchen and as I was eating I felt bad because I knew that not everybody was that lucky which is why I have decided to create Virginia’s Sandwich Run – an upcoming page on this blog dedicated to our late housekeeper, Virginia, which aims to raise enough money to make 48 sandwiches a week for the people in our current housekeeper’s neighbourhood. Do you feel guilty about inequality but fail to do anything about it?

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://www.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://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/nisha-varghese/nishavarghese

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!