Hypocrite – somebody who pretends to have admirable principles, beliefs, or feelings but behaves otherwise.

It’s 8: 57 PM on day 117 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself All-Bran Flakes for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – I have exactly 56 days to raise $2 154 – I need some kind of divine intervention – go to the community barbeque – the most memorable part of the whole event was when I asked this woman for a donation – it was the most hilarious   thing I’ve ever see the poor woman looked like  a deer caught in the headlights  LOL 🙂 – watch TV, feed myself rice and curry  for dinner and   exercise for 15 minutes  

In the nineteen years that I’ve been alive I’ve been fortunate enough to encounter all sorts of people – some good, some bad – but never have I been more disgusted by another human being than I was this morning when I heard that my uncle had called to say that we could leave my grandma with their housekeeper if we didn’t want to take her to the barbeque with us and if that wasn’t bad enough they – my uncle and his family – turned around and went to prayer without even asking my grandma if she wanted to go.  Do your actions in everyday life reflect your religious beliefs? 🙂

One does evil enough when one does nothing good. – German Proverb.

It’s 8: 24 PM on day 115 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself All-Bran Flakes for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – someone made a $10 to my campaign and I added $31 of my own money to that that total in the hopes that it   would encourage more people to donate but unfortunately for me it wasn’t to be    🙁 –      feed myself rice and curry for lunch, exercise for 15 minutes, watch TV and feed myself Batura – deep fried bread –and baked beans  for dinner.   

Today as I was sitting in front of my laptop, tweeting about my campaign I made a vow never to stop working towards a world where everybody has access to clean water because at the end of the day we are all responsible for our fellow human beings. Are you your sister’s keeper? 🙂

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky.

It’s 8: 43 PM on day 114 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Batura – deep fried bread – and beef curry for bunch, write a motivation letter to get into the SA Writers’ College – I took me five hours but I think I FINALLY got it just right 🙂 –tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few minutes –I didn’t get much time to tweet today because I was busy with my motivation letter :(–    feed myself grapes for dinner and   exercise for 5 minutes.

Today as I was writing my motivation letter (see below ) I caught myself thinking what if I don’t get in, what if I get in and then flunk out and that’s when I remembered something that Elbert Hubbard had  once said ”There is no failure except in no longer trying.” Have your thoughts ever conspired against you?

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is Nisha; I am a 19-year-old girl whose passion for writing began on an ordinary day, just like this one. I was sitting in front of the computer, bored out of my mind when I remembered the story that I heard on the news the previous day, about a homeless boy who didn’t smile anymore because all the people he approached for money refused to look him in the eye and in my quest to see life from his point of view I started writing, and two hours later when I took a step back and read the short story back to myself I realized that I had truly found my bliss.

Three years and twenty-three short stories later, I was slowly but surely losing my passion for writing and I knew I couldn’t go back to the person I used to be before I started writing, so I did a variety of different things to reignite my passion for writing. But it wasn’t until I read the book H.R.H by Danielle Steel that I realized that I could make people feel less alone just by what I wrote, that is when I knew I was meant to be a novelist and although I am confident in my abilities as a writer I truly believe that once I’ve completed this course all aspects of my writing will improve.

Yours sincerely,

Nisha Varghese

Envy – the resentful or unhappy feeling of wanting somebody else’s success, good fortune, qualities, or possessions.

It’s 7: 15 PM on day 111 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a homemade Wrap consisting of beef strips, vegetables and sweet-chili sauce   for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for  most of the day – I must have sent out  at least 50 donations requests and FINALLY someone agreed to make a donation – I am nothing if not persistent LOL 🙂 –      feed myself Malva Pudding for lunch,  exercise for 15 minutes, wheel myself  from my bedroom to  the end of the corridor  – I was just 2 meters away from the dining when my mother had insisted on pushing me the rest of the way because my dinner was getting cold – I was SO mad – and feed myself Fish fingers  for dinner.

I am the eldest of three children and although my sister has always been the golden child I have never been envious of her because I knew that she had worked hard for everything that she got but today as I watched her walk from our bedroom to the dining room in less than 30 seconds I felt an unmistakable surge of envy coarse through me because I knew that she hadn’t worked for her ability to walk. Have you ever been envious of somebody that you loved? 🙁

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” – Deuteronomy 31:6

It’s 9: 45 PM on day 108 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Spring rolls  for  breakfast, cry about my life for a while – crying didn’t make my problems disappear but it did make me feel better 🙂 –    tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – still  no luck :(–    feed myself steak and  mash potatoes for lunch, go to the bathroom by myself –  the back of my t-shirt fall into the toilet water and my mom had to help me change –  again LOL – and  exercise for 30 minutes – my back hurts 🙁

Yesterday I sent my cousin a message wishing her all the best on her impending nuptials – she’s getting married today – and after reading her reply I spontaneously burst into tears at first I thought I was crying because I wouldn’t be attending the wedding but then I caught myself thinking   daddy didn’t take me to the wedding so maybe I’m not good enough and after  a moment of reflection I thought to myself of course you’re good enough God made you  and with that my tears dried up and I didn’t feel so alone anymore. Have you ever consciously contradicted your negative thoughts? 🙂