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Day 144

An idle youth becomes in age a beggar. – Latin Proverb

It’s 9: 04 PM on day 144 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 – two donations were made today – the first one was a $53.85 donation from Wayne of the Jindalee Foundation who by the way has donated to my campaign not once, but THREE times – thanks Wayne 🙂 – and the second one was a $5 donation I made on behalf of the person who made a donation via PayPal – which brings the grand total to $58.85 – I know I don’t get any of the money and yet I am SO happy 🙂 – exercise for 10 minutes while watching TV, hung out with my little sister – she actually turning into quite a woman I wonder if she knows how proud I am of her 🙂 – and feed myself pizza for dinner.

I’ve always wondered why some kids, like my sister, were straight-A students while others of the same age were drug-addicts and as I watched her sitting on the bed singing along to One Way by Hillsong United (see below) I finally figured it out – everybody wants to belong to something – chess club, debating, church, etc – and when they don’t they fall into the ‘bad crowd’ simply by default. Are you setting your kids up to be beggars in the future by not giving them enough to do in the present? 🙂

Day 142

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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s 11: 42 PM on day 142 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 – no donations were made today but somebody – you know who you are – sent $5 to my PayPal account so that I could make a donation on her behalf – which I will do ASAP 🙂 – feed myself bun and chicken nuggets for brunch while watching TV – I decided to postpone this week’s meet-free day to Saturday 🙂 – exercised for 10 minutes and feed myself rice and curry for dinner.

Today as I watched the chaos in Egypt through the 7 o’clock news I was so filled with outrage because at the end of the day being President is about putting the needs of your people above your own and sadly for the people of Egypt Mubarak has proven time and time again that he is incapable of doing so and to make matters worse his actions have jeopardized the stability of countries like Jordan who were otherwise peaceful. If you held the highest office in the land and your people no longer felt you were serving them well would you hear their voices and step down or turn into a dictator and stand your ground?

Day 93

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. – Daniel J. Boorstin

It’s 6: 35 PM on day 93 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, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – no one has donated so far today but I did make the $25 donation on behalf of the person that sent me money via PayPal yesterday – I wanted to get the money out of my account and into my campaign ASAP so as to avoid even the appearance of impropriety – feed myself myself Batura – deep fried bread – for lunch, help my brother make Custard – every time he tested the mixture he had the same thing to say needs more sugar LOL 🙂 – attempt to get myself off the wheelchair and onto the bed – I love my mom but every time she sees me struggling to do something she just comes in and does it for me – it makes me feel so incompetent 🙁 – and exercise for 10 minutes – I should really buy my brother a gift of some sort thanks to him the exercise session didn’t long – he was on my mother’s back – quite literally – LOL 🙂

Yesterday while on Twitter I was excited to read of a man in Berlin who was cured of HIV by means of a stem cell transplant however, my excitement quickly turned to deep dismay when I realized that more people were taking about The Golden Globes then a man being cured of HIV don’t misunderstand what I’m trying to say I fully acknowledge that everybody has the right to freedom of speech and I would NEVER dream of infringing on that right all I’m trying to say is that with a right to say what you want to say comes a responsibility to say things that will make this world a better place. Is it just me or have people lost sight of what’s really important? 🙁

Day 92

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“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz

It’s 6: 43 PM on day 92 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Appam – bread made of rice batter – and chicken curry for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for most of the day –someone made a $25 donation to my campaign via PayPal which I will upload to my page as soon as my dad gets back from wherever he is – I used his credit card to make donations on behalf of those who send me contributions via PayPal – feed myself rice and curry for lunch – and exercise for 20 minutes – my mother went easy on me today when I said we were done she just let it be truth-be-told I think that she was just too tired to argue with me LOL 🙂

A few weeks ago, my cousins – let’s call the oldest Anna and the youngest Christina for the purpose of this blog – came to visit while I was wring a blog post about how sad I was that I wouldn’t be attending Christina’s wedding I knew Christina’s curiosity would get the better of her so I copied and pasted everything I wrote onto a new post on WordPress and closed the Word document – or so I thought – a few minutes later I clicked on something by accident and the Word document popped up and despite my best efforts to close it before she got a chance to read what I wrote she had already read it – I thought I would die at that very moment LOL 🙂 – but after the embarrassment faded and the colour of my cheeks returned to its normal shade I realized that having feelings and not expressing them is equivalent to not having any feelings at all. Are you afraid to express your feelings for fear of rejection? 🙂