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Day 81

The road to hell is paved with good intentions – Proverb.

It’s 7: 28 PM on day81 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself  Upma – a south Indian dish made of rava – and beef curry for  breakfast,   fix my Facebook button – if you want to get to know the real me add me on Facebook – I am an open book open for all the world to read 🙂 – spend THREE  hours tweeting about my Clean Water For All Campaign – I am so frustrated it’s like all of us are waiting for someone to come and fix all the problems of the world only we don’t realize that each one of us is that somebody –      feed myself  Custard  for lunch – not the most nutritious of lunches but it was yummy nonetheless 🙂 –   continued reading Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela –just in the first 10-15 pages I began to realize how much respect Mandela had for the leaders who came before him and that is something that I believe is sorely lacking in today’s politics and the world at large – feed myself rice and curry for supper and exercise for 15 minutes – today’s session was just right – nor too painful and  not too pleasurable kinda like the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears LOL 🙂  

 Today as we were having supper I saw my brother – who is my 10kg’s overweight – reaching for a fizzy drink inside the fridge and I said don’t drink that have you see your stomach – I know, I know I am a horrible person – what I really meant to say was I love you want you to be healthy and in retrospect I probably should have suggested an alternative to the fizzy drink – I feel like the scum-of-the-Earth right now 🙁 Have you ever said something that came out all wrong?

Day 80

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspiresMarcus Aurelius.

It’s 7: 21 PM on day80 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself All-Bran Flakes  for breakfast,   learn how to calculate Exact Equations – I wish life was more like Math where every problem had a clearly defined solution(s) but I guess that’s too much to ask   –      feed myself  rice and curry for lunch,  exercise for 30 minutes – getting anyone to help me was a mission and a half – my mother was tired, my father was nowhere to be found, my sister was texting and my brother was eating – so I ended up having to exercise by myself – you know what they say want something done you have to do it yourself 🙂 – and started reading Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela – President Obama wrote the most moving forward I’ve ever read – I got the sense  that President Obama has a great deal of respect for Nelson Mandela – as do I 🙂

Different people have different aspirations some people aspire to wealth and fame while others aspire to peace and happiness and if you’d asked me yesterday what I aspired to I wouldn’t have been able to tell you but in reading the forward written by President Obama I have come to realize that I aspire to Nelson Mandela’s exemplary leadership qualities. What do you aspire to? 🙂