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Day 391

Always keep your eyes on the bigger picture– that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 7: 35 PM on day 391 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to watch The Rugby World Cup match: South Africa vs. Australia – we lost and are out of the world cup but congratulations to both teams who give it a 100% sometimes all the matters is that you try your best which the Spingboks did I am SO PROUD of the team 🙂 – brush my teeth, feed myself pancakes with coconut and sugar for breakfast, publish my Kid of the Week feature, prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck – listen to music– I LOVE Undo It and Sometimes You Leave by Carrie Underwood (see both lyric videos below)– feed myself chicken biryani for lunch, tweet about my campaign some more–still no luck– watch TV and feed myself a McDonald’s junior chicken burger for dinner.

This morning my brother and I were watching South Africa vs. Australia – the Rugby World Cup quarter-final match – and at the end of it all my brother said outraged how could they lose by two points and although I too was bitterly disappointed I always saw the game for what it was a game and that I guess is my message to you guys don’t blow things out of proportion because no matter what you’re through at least you have three meals a day – I’m assuming – and everything you need unlike the people of Somalia who have to walk for kilometers risking life and limb just so that they can have something to eat. Do the littlest of things have the power to bring you down?

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!

Day 193

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If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Sir. Isaac Newton

It’s 11: 35 PM on day 193 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, cut my birthday cake (see pictures below) and feed it to myself while watching the Cricket World Cup match: South Africa vs. New Zealand–we lost and are out of the world cup and of course it stings a little but in the bigger scheme of things it’s just a game … people are dying in Japan – and tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – someone who prefers to remain anonymous donated $54.92 – both you and I know who you are thank you for your donation 🙂

Today being my birthday and all I would like to dedicate this post to:

My mother who does things for me that nobody else would do

My father who has taught me everything I need to know about myself to survive in this world

My siblings who never complain even when my parents give me more attention just because I am on a wheelchair

My extended family who show me every day that I am not in this alone

Virginia – our late housekeeper – who has taught me how to love unconditionally

Gerda – my physiotherapist – who expects me to go out and do great things in spite of my disability

Nelson Mandela who has taught me courage of conviction

Oprah who has taught me that you receive more when you give

The cake

The cake out of the box

Me cutting the cake (my eyes appear closed because I am looking down at the cake)

Day 170

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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers … Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. – Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

It’s 9: 15 PM on day 170 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a banana for breakfast, watch TV while feeding myself a chicken polony sandwich for a snack, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – no luck – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my campaign some more – still no luck – send the priest who I mentioned yesterday another link to my campaign – he lost the one I sent him before – a few hours later he replied back saying Hey this is wonderful what you are trying to do. If you don’t mind, can I share this with others? Let’s see how many respond. All my support and wishes for your good campaign. Best…. I am not sure how much it will help but he’s trying and in my book that counts for a LOT 🙂 – feed myself butternut and grilled chicken for dinner, watch the Cricket World Cup match: England vs. Ireland – it was positively brilliant everybody had counted Ireland out before the second innings even started only they didn’t count on Kevin O’ Brian scoring a 100 of 50 balls which gave Ireland a 3 wicket victory over England with 5 balls to spare – well done to the Irish they played superbly just goes to show anything is possible if you believe 🙂 – and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Yesterday I was watching the news and heard Noureddine Mezni – the spokesperson of the AU – say it is an African problem and we have to seek African solution. This is also an internal issue. Libyan people themselves are against external interventions. We are supporting them and strongly condemn the use of force against peaceful protestors and I thought to myself you’ve got to be kidding me ‘it is an African problem and we have to seek African solution’ crude oil prices are raising… everything that happen anywhere affects everybody else that’s when it occurred to me that the problem with the world today is that people are so busy trying to protect their territory that they can’t see that there is truly only one territory – Earth. Do you recuse yourself from certain situation and conversations because you feel it doesn’t affect you or ‘your people’?