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Day 1572: Grace, Politeness and Cerebral Palsy

Grace and politeness – those are just two of the things that having Cerebral Palsy has taught me.

 

It’s 11 : 32 AM on day 1572 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  brush my teeth,  pray,  read Isaiah 57, publish my Disability of the Day feature, promote my Educate Generations campaign–  on $1 315 – learn one new thing – did you know that the Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing at approximately 17 milliseconds per 100 years – feed myself chicken and veggie wraps for breakfast and continue promoting my Educate Generations campaign – still on $1 315 but I’m still grateful 🙂

 

Recently I was at the mall shopping with my sister and cousin and this lovely gentleman came up right beside us and said to me repeatedly God bless you to which I said thank you repeatedly stuff like that happens to me all the time so when I’m out in public I can’t have a bad day people don’t have to come up and say nice things to me they choose to do that I will always appreciate that even though I sometimes want to be an ordinary 23-year-old out shopping with her family.

Day 248

Appreciation consists of words and action – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 7: 40 PM on day 248 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign –no luck but @laurajteacheroz (Laura) promised to donate $50 if 50 people donated $10 each – thanks Laura 🙂 – feed myself a polony sandwich for breakfast, tweet about my campaign some more –still no luck :(– feed myself rice and curry for lunch, watch TV, continue reading A Purloined Life – the first of two books in Stella Cameron‘s Charmed, feed myself Batura for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

Today I was sitting at my laptop doing something when the memory of a comment left on my Facebook wall post which read you’re a star came flooding back to me and in that moment I felt so angry because the woman who left that comment after reading an article about me was the very same woman who wouldn’t return any of my messages when I sent her a donation request so naturally I wasn’t exactly feeling the love although I did thank her in the interest of being polite. Do you talk the talk but fail to walk the walk?

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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!