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Day 107

People will do just about anything for you if they feel an oneness with you – that’s what I learned today 🙂                          

It’s 8: 10 PM on day 107 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Plain yoghurt  for  breakfast,  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – 66 days and counting till the close of my campaign – God help me! –    feed myself mash potatoes for lunch, go watch Due Date at the Hemingways Mall – it was a funny and heartwarming tale of a man racing against time to make it to his wife’s side for the birth of their first child – I  REALLY recommend it to anyone in desperate need of a laugh – go to the bathroom by myself – it ended up being more trouble than it was worth – the back of my t-shirt fall into the toilet water and my mom had to help me change LOL 🙂 –   feed myself Chapati – an unleavened flatbread – and mash potatoes    for dinner  and  exercise for 15 minutes – I was SO tired that I didn’t even want to do it 🙁  

 Today as we –me and  my sister’s best friend’s father – entered the movie theatre we couldn’t help but notice that the two seats next to me were taken  which meant that my sister and her best friend couldn’t sit next to me but as luck would have it one of the woman had been wheelchair bound for a year due to a stroke so  the  two of them offered to vacate their seats for us and as they got up to leave  I realized that the secret to getting people to do what you want lies in making the other person see themselves in you.  Have you ever done something nice for somebody else because you saw yourself in him/her? 🙂    

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? 🙂

Day 105

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator’s psyche.” – Lesley Conger.

It’s 8: 22 PM on day 105 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Batura – deep fried bread –   for  breakfast,  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – $2 205 more to raise in 68– I am SO nervous 🙁 – slept for a few hours – my hips were killing me 🙁 –    feed myself a banana for lunch, watched TV, feed myself Custard  for dinner and  exercise for 15 minutes  – I’m sweaty and stinky and in desperate need of a cold shower LOL 🙂  

Today a family friend of  ours came to visit and she always asks me about my plans for the future and although I hated doing I would lie through my teeth because lying was easier than having her think of me as a loser but today as she took a sit next to me and asked me about my exams I made a decision to tell her the truth no matter how uncomfortable it made me and to my surprise it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be she just said oh I understand and walked away and in that moment I  felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Have you ever lied because it was too uncomfortable to tell the truth? 🙂

Day 104

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion” – John McDonald.

It’s 11: 32 PM on day 104 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Batura – deep fried bread –   and vegetable curry  for  breakfast,  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few minutes –raised $30 today – I am SO happy 🙂 – learn Biology – I never knew why some twins were fraternal and others were identical but now I do 🙂 –    feed myself rice and curry for lunch and  exercise for 15 minutes  – it was so funny you know how usually it’s the people who are exercising who say are we done yet well today the roles were a little reversed and my mom was the one saying it  – that will show her to tell me to exercise LOL 🙂       

Today as I was reading an article on The Jonas Brothers (see below) I realized that not all celebrities drink, smoke and do drugs which and that realization made my heart smile because now I for certain that I wasn’t the only person in the world with ‘old fashioned’ values.

The Jonas Brothers all practice abstinence and wear purity rings to prove it. Here’s a snippet from the very lengthy article on the JoBros featured in Details Magazine:

“On a quiet Friday morning in a dressing room at Madison Square Garden, the Jonas Brothers hold out their hands to show off their purity rings. Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas—the teen-pop trio who stand, at this very moment, on the brink of hugeness—wear the metal bands on their fingers to symbolize, as Joe puts it, ‘promises to ourselves and to God that we’ll stay pure till marriage.’ Joe is 18. His ring is silver and adorned with a cross. ‘It actually ripped apart a little bit, just on the bottom, here, but I didn’t want to get a new one, because this one means so much to me,’ he says. Nick, who is 15, says, ‘I got mine made at Disney World. It’s pretty awesome.’ Kevin, at 20, is the oldest of the three, and while a punk-rock purity ring from Tiffany might represent the ultimate oxymoron, that’s exactly what he’s going for. His silver vow of abstinence is covered with studs. ‘It’s pretty rock and roll,’ Kevin says. ‘It’s getting banged up a little bit because of the guitar.’”

Day 103

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.  ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

It’s8: 47 PM on day 103 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Appam – bread made of rice batter –   and beef curry for breakfast, watch TV, sent Christmas messages to everyone – I hope – had lunch with my aunt and her family – it was the quietest Christmas ever this year there were only 9 people whereas, last year there were at least 20 … everybody went to India for my cousin’s wedding 🙁 – feed myself Custard for dinner     and exercise for 15 minutes – the old me would have said its Christmas and left at that the new me didn’t – I couldn’t be prouder of myself 🙂     

We were having Christmas lunch at my cousin’s  house and I happened to say something along the lines of I’m going to buy the new Taylor Swift CD and my cousin looked at me and said why would you buy music when you can download it which I have to admit I have been guilty of doing in the past but somewhere along the line I realized that every time I stole somebody paid and from that day onwards I made a decision that NOTHING I wanted was worth compromising the values that I held so dear.  How far are you willing to go to get what you want? 🙂

Day 101

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.John Demartini

It’s 7: 23 PM on day 101 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself  Plain yoghurt and grapes for  breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign  –someone made a $25 donation to my campaign – I’m so grateful 🙂 –   watch TV, exercise for 10 minutes  and feed myself rice and curry  for dinner    

As the sun rose on South Africa today I was pleading with God to get me a donation and sure enough a few hours later when I checked on my page I noticed a $25 increase in the ‘Total raised so far’ at first I thought it was just a coincidence and then I remembered that this wasn’t the first time God had given me what I asked for and I couldn’t help but look up at the ceiling with a smile and say thank you. Has God shown up for you when you really needed him? 🙂

Day 100

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein.

It’s 8: 03 PM on day 100 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,     feed myself Puttu – [pronounced put] ground rice with layers of coconut –  and Kadala Curry – made of brown chickpeas –      for  breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign  – damn it I HATE being ignored 🙁 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, drink water by myself – I love doing the small things that other people take for granted because not so long ago I couldn’t do them 🙂 – watch TV, drink tea by myself, exercise for 10 minutes – all I can say is I’m glad that’s over talk about PAINFUL LOL 🙂 – and feed myself grilled chicken and baked beans for dinner     

This morning began like every other beautiful South African morning until my father went on a rampage because my sister had forgotten to print something out for him he was spewing venom saying stuff like no one does anything to help me, you guys are so useless, without me nothing would get done and all I could do was smile and say congratulations daddy you do everything because I knew that someday I would get out of here and be free to live my own life. What do you do in the presence of negative people? 🙂

Day 99

Gift – something that is given to somebody, usually on order to provide pleasure or to show gratitude

It’s 8: 16 PM on day 96 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,    tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – still no luck 🙁 I wonder what I’m doing wrong   –    feed myself grapes for lunch,    exercise for 10 minutes –my almost dislocated my kneecap LOL 🙂 – and    feed myself   Whole-grain bread and grilled chicken for dinner.

 About 2-3 years ago I was too broke to buy my mom a Mother’s Day gift so I wrote her a letter instead (see letter  below) and as I watched her reading it with tears in her eyes it occurred to me that all anybody wants from us is to know that we care and with that said I would like to ask you to be frugal with your money and frivolous with your love this festive season.    

 

Dear Mom,

I am writing you this letter because I know I would be too embarrassed say this to you in person.  Every year on mother’s day I either forget that it’s mother’s day completely or I make this last minute mother’s day card that I don’t even like, but you smile and say you love it. This year I am doing something completely different I am writing you this letter detailing all the reasons I love you and why I think you’re the best mom in the world.

I tell you that I love a lot, but those three words aren’t enough to express how I feel about you and everything you do for me.  I love you because you tell me you love me even when I tell you I hate you.  I love you because you know what to say and what not to say. I love you because you hug me even when I am as prickly as porcupine.  I love you because you’re always there when I need you and you give me space when I don’t.  These are some of the reasons why I love you but, perhaps the most important reason why I love you is because you taught me what it means to be woman in this world.

Please know that I am grateful to God for everyday I spend with you.  If you’re sure of nothing else in the world, never doubt that I think you’re the best mother in the world.

 

 All my love,

Nisha               

 

                     

Day 98

Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  ~ Elizabeth Stone

It’s 6: 01 PM on day 98 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, sleep until 12 PM – I didn’t get much sleep yesterday due to the fact that I spent most of the night with my head over a bucket puking my guts out – suspected food poisoning  – don’t worry I feel a 100% better now it takes more than a little food poisoning to keep me down LOL 🙂 – finish writing and publishing yesterday’s blog post – I fully intended to publish it yesterday but I thought I would sleep for an hour, wake up, finish write it and publish it but the next time I woke up was at 4 AM this morning with my head over a bucket – suffice to say things didn’t work out  exactly according to plan LOL 🙂 – and drink to glasses of tea all by myself – the next time you feel like vomiting drink black tea without milk and LOTS of sugar – it works 🙂

 I had always thought that wherever happened to me affected no one else but me but yesterday as I was watching my mother hovering over my bed checking to see if I was okay I realized something that I will carry with me for all the days of my life – we are an extension of our parents and they hurt when we hurt – so to all the kids out there please know that whatever your parents do that is offensive to your sensibilities is done out of the best of intentions.

Day 97

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)

It’s 5: 22 PM on day 97 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Chapati – an unleavened flatbread – and beef curry  for  breakfast, spend some time with my cousin watching Cricket – a bat-and-ball team sport – it was the funniest thing my cousin was supporting India while I was supporting South Africa LOL 🙂 –       tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few minutes – still no luck 🙁 –  feed myself  curry and rice for lunch, go to bathroom by myself – if someone had told me that the greatest lesson of the day would be learned in the bathroom I would have laughed in their faces LOL 🙂  exercise for 5 minutes – SO much pain 🙁

Even though I’ve always needed help with the simplest of things I’ve always been independent of spirit which more often than not got me into to trouble as it did today – I was in the toilet attempting to grab the toilet paper to my right trying not fall and in that moment I realized that the only thing worse than asking for help is falling flat of my face and so I ended up calling my mother to come and help me out. Would you rather fall flat on your face or ask for help? 🙂