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Day 2069: Arrogance vs. Being Genuinely Proud of Yourself

Being proud of yourself is not arrogance – that’s what I’ve realized.

It’s 1 : 19 PM on day 2069 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read Proverbs 9, sit in the car while mom went to the doctor (she’s fine minor issue), have breakfast, learn one new thing –Placing fruit in a paper bag helps to concentrate the levels of ethylene gas which is what helps induce the ripening of the above mentioned fruits (bananas/avocados, etc.). In fact, avocados and pears must be picked in order to ripen.– and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign – Juliana Mullan donated $25 (thank you so much Juliana 🙂 ) which brings the total raised to $5 749 only $501 more to raise before Jan 10 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far 🙂).

This morning I realized that being proud of yourself is not arrogance genuine pride in oneself is acknowledge to yourself all that you’ve achieved and who you have become despite the obstacles you have faced while arrogance is a camouflage for insecurity (thank you Tim Fargo for that succinct definition of arrogance).

Day 1733: What Cynthia Reminded Me About Love

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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”― Mother Teresa

It’s 12 : 15 PM on day 1733 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Micah 1, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing –Among the most accomplished and well known of the world’s deep-sea explorers, Robert Ballard is best known for his historic discoveries of hydrothermal vents, the sunken R.M.S. Titanic, the German battleship Bismarck, and numerous other contemporary and ancient shipwrecks around the world.–feed myself peanut butter and banana sandwich for breakfast, make sandwiches for Cynthia’s ( our housekeeper’s) neighborhood with Cynthia’s help as part of Virginia’s Sandwich Run – (thank you sisi Cynthia for all your help) – and promote my Educate Generations campaign– $3 045 raised so far.

Yesterday seeing how much love our housekeeper, Cynthia, put into cleaning our windows and how much pride she took in her work I was reminded that the love with which you do things makes all the difference.

Day 216

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You appreciate money more when you earn it – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 10: 39 PM on day 216 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – no luck – feed myself a bread and jam sandwich for dinner and tweet about my campaign some more – still no luck.

Today I woke up to find that someone had made a donation to this blog and told my father that I could pay the electricity bill if he’d let me because although my parents had told me that their money was my money I wasn’t like most people of my generation who were more than happy to live off the fruits of their parents labour so I promised myself that I would contribute to the household expenses as soon as I started making any real money and I guess that is my message to all my peers out there who sleep until noon and sit around playing video games the rest of the day you have to have enough pride in yourself to say mom dad I am grateful for all you’ve done in raising me but I think I’ll take it from here. Have your parents robbed you of your self-esteem by giving you a free ride though this life?