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Day 2302: Small Acts of Heroism

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Heroism is also in the small acts – that’s what I’d like the world to know.

 

It’s 9: 50 AM on day 2302 of my journey towards independence and I managed to  pray, read     Isaiah 65: 17  and work on my  25 Smiles Campaign    –raised $9 625.04 only  $2 875.96 more to raise to reach my second goal of raising $12 500 for Smile Train before Jan 10 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far ).

 

This morning I realized heroism is also in the small acts it’s letting someone else have the last piece of cake, it’s giving someone right of way in traffic, it’s letting someone go ahead of you in line at the grocery store… it’s putting other people’s needs and wants before your own.

 

Day 1948: Brent Lindeque, The Good Stuff and the GoodThingsGuy

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“People don’t know what heroes are anymore. The “heroes” the world worships are the self-inflated, hedonists given to narcissism with a penchant for crying ‘Peace, peace!’ while coddling a lust for war in their hearts.

Look for the true heroes.
They have been and will be in our midst, but they’re harder to spot.

The true heroes are predisposed to serving not self-gain. They are seldom loud and bombastic. The true heroes make sacrifices for the greater good, but don’t mistake their gentleness of spirit for weakness. If it becomes necessary, they will fight, to their last breath, for peace.”

– Jacqui-Mackway Wilson

 

It’s 11: 40 AM on day 1948 of my journey towards independence and I managed to  have breakfast, pray, read Galatians 1, learn one new thing –The ability of worker ants to carry many times their own body weight is well documented, but new research on heavy-lifting ants reveals that the neck joint of a common American field ant can withstand pressures up to 5,000 times greater than its own body weight.–  and work on my  25 Smiles Campaign – $715 raised so far only $5 535 more to raise in 361 days (SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has helped out so far :)).

 

Recently I’ve become somewhat obsessed with The Good Stuff and GoodThingsGuy.com – a radio show and blog by Brent Lindeque – Brent not only highlights the good happening everywhere he also goes out there and does good….this dude walks his talk and I absolutely love him for it. Thank you Brent for being you and for all the good you do I know you didn’t sign up to be anybody’s hero but you’re totally one of my heroes.

Day 304

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Famous has become a synonym for hero – that’s what I learned today 🙁

It’s 9: 05 PM on day 304 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, watch TV, feed myself Batura and potato curry for breakfast, listen to music feed myself tapioca dipped in chutney for lunch, watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at the Hemingways Mall – it was truly the end of an era when the credits rolled and faded to black it occurred to me that there would never be another Harry Potter movie ever again – go visit my cousin, brush my teeth once more, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck – and watch The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale in primetime – good bye Oprah thank you SO much for all you’ve taught me from my daily routine of keeping a gratitude journal to my love of service you’ve molded me into the woman I always knew I was meant to be and for that I will be eternally grateful 🙂

Yesterday I logged onto MSN with the intention of checking my mail when an article entitled Emma’s Fashion Magic – detailing the history of Emma Watson’s fashion choices – caught my eye and as I was reading it I realized that the media took ordinary people and portrayed them as heroes thus confusing the world’s population as to what a hero really is with that said I would like to tell you what I believe makes someone a hero you are a hero if you walk the elderly across the street, you are hero if you feed the homeless in your community, you are a hero if you take in a stray dog that has nowhere else to go, you are hero if you offer to babysit for free for a single mom who is overworked and underappreciated in short you are a hero if you extended yourself in service of the world. If you had to choose between fame and heroism would your choice be easy?

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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!