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Day 274

People only see what they are prepared to see. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s 7: 05 PM on day 274 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a banana for breakfast,watch TV, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck 🙁 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, watch some more TV, feed myself a banana for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

As you know I believe there is a lesson in EVERYTHING which is why I wasn’t surprised when I learned a few things about life from Twitter and they are:

People everywhere want the same things – e.g. a mother in America wants her child to be happy, healthy and successful as does a mother in Spain

Judge not a country by what you hear and see in the media – before I joined Twitter I thought Americans were arrogant and selfish largely due to how they were pained in the media but now I know that nothing could be further from the truth Americans are kind, generous and REALLY hardworking – some of them have to take on more than one job just to make ends meet.

There are more good people out there than bad – in the course of raising money for my Clean Water For All Campaign I have approached people – both offline and online – for donations and some have donated while others have not but the stories that have really made me go wow are those like that of Galen – a retired OT and mother of TEN kids with special needs who somehow found the money to make a donation to my campaign in spite of the fact that she had all those kids to support

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

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!

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Day 256

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Life looks a lot different from someone else’s point of view – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 7: 46 PM on day 256 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign –no luck – feed myself a polony sandwich for breakfast, exercise for a few hours, rest for a few hours – the power was out – watch TV, feed myself rice and curry for lunch, rest some more – I had a headache 🙁 – and brush my teeth once more.

As you know my mother and I have our ups and downs but today as I read Those Special Needs Mothers proud moments by Ellen (see excerpt below) – an American mother who has a son with Cerebral Palsy – I saw life through her eyes and I began to cry because although I often told my mother she was being too overbearing I never once told her that she had done enough so from this moment on I will hear my mother’s words with love and react accordingly. Are you in constant conflict with those you love because you can’t put yourself their shoes for a little while?

For most of life, I’m too busy doing things—or too immersed in worries—to give myself props for mommy-ing Max. Actually, the same is true for mommy-ing Sabrina, who comes with her her own challenges (most of which involve a stubborn streak the size of Texas). But Max gives me a certain kind of parenting insecurity. Plenty of times, I’m just not convinced I’m doing the right thing or helping him as much as I can (and I suspect I am not alone here in feeling this way about my child). I swear, I’d like my tombstone to read “She did enough.”

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

if you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

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!

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Day 230

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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

It’s 7: 48 PM on day 230 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself baked beans on toast for breakfast, put the finishing touches on this week’s edition of Kid of the Week and publish it only stopping to feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck – watch the movie It’s Complicated starting Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin – it was about a divorced couple having an extramarital affair after Jack – the ex-husband (played by Alec Baldwin) – gets remarried to a much younger woman – it was refreshing in that the ending was totally unexpected I would recommend it to anyone who likes romantic comedies with a twist –tweet about my campaign some more – still no luck 🙁 – and feed myself grilled chicken for dinner

Today as my mother washing my bloodied pants she said God will bless you and without hesitation I responded I am already blessed and that’s when I realized that the fact that I could see myself as blessed was a blessing in itself. Do you praise the life you have or long for the life you could have had?
Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

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!

Day 158

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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. – Oprah Winfrey

It’s 10: 28 PM on day 158 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 luck today :(– edit the questionnaire I’m using for my book and send it to my friend in Portugal for her to fill out (if you have no idea what talking about refer to Day 153) – listened to music, watched TV and feed myself Nina’s Pizza for dinner – it didn’t taste as good as it did the last time probably because I wasn’t all that hungry to begin with.

A couple of days ago @angels510 (Angie) asked me why I chose nisha360 to be my Twitter username and I suddenly had a flashback to the exact moment when my life changed I was sitting on my wheelchair in my room thinking to myself well this is stupid I’ve been waiting all my life for God to give me something in return for taking away my legs and nothing’s happening I am going to flip my life and use the fact that I am in a wheelchair to inspire people and when I snapped back into the present moment I replied it symbolizes how my life has changed since I was 16 I had really low self-esteem and thought the world would be better off without me… what a difference 4 years makes 🙂 and that I guess is my message to all of you use your life to help others and you will forever be happy as a human being. Is your attitude holding you back from living your best life? 🙂