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Day 2085: What Do You Want to Do Before You Die? by The Buried Life

Live your buried life (the life you would live if you weren’t living the life that you think you’re supposed to live) – that’s my message myself and the world.

It’s 12 : 19 PM on day 2085 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read Mark 2: 17, have breakfast, learn one new thing –The Great Wall of China was built over 2,000 years ago, by Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China during the Qin (Ch’in) Dynasty (221 B.C – 206 B.C.). In Chinese the wall is called “Wan-Li Qang-Qeng” which means 10,000-Li Long Wall (10,000 Li = about 5,000 km). – and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign – raised $5 774 only $476 more to raise before Jan 10 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far 🙂 ).

Yesterday I finished reading What Do You Want to Do Before You Die? by The Buried Life (Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn, Jonnie Penn and Ben Nemtin) it’s basically a book about four friends who are seeking to uncover their buried lives by crossing off things on their bucket list and helping others do the same I LOVE this book because it makes you believe in your own dreams and also makes you realize that if most people just did what they dreamed of the world would be a better place (I would give the book a 20 out of 10 it’s very visual, inspiring and fun to read (I am by no means endorsing everything done in the book but I stand behind the general message of the book)).

A special thanks to Julie who sent me the book all the way from Florida (I’ve been wanting to read this book for years but it’s not available here in South Africa).

Day 1443: “How death changed my life: The buried life at TEDxRoma”

Day 1099: Living your dreams every day

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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

It’s 1 : 00 PM on day 1099 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself boiled egg and All Bran Flakes for breakfast, pray, read 2 Samuel 2, publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – I didn’t surpass my goal so far today either – spend time outside by myself – I love people I really do but I love spending time by myself even more sometimes I don’t want to be stared at or answer questions about Cerebral Palsy I just want to be and nature is the only place where I can do that the birds don’t even notice me they just fly around minding their own business I love that 🙂 – practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles and stretch my hamstrings.

Last night after watching clips of The Buried Life – a reality show about four friends who are crossing things off their bucket list – I asked myself what do I want to do before I die and to my surprise I’d done almost everything I wanted to do with the notable exception of going to Paris and becoming completely independent I wanted to raise enough money to build a well somewhere in the world (I did that), I wanted to raise money for the World Food Programme (I did that), I wanted to raise money for Nothing But Nets (I did that), I wanted to raise money to plant trees (I did that), I wanted to raise money to end child slavery (I’m doing that I’ve reached my fundraising goal now I’m looking to surpass it) and I wanted to spend more time outside enjoying the sunshine (I do that as often as possible). Are you dreaming as if you’ll live forever and living as if you’ll die today?

Day 259

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Rules are a cautious person’s excuse for not participating in life – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 7: 15 PM on day 259 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign –no luck – read and leave comments on Connor’s Song and A Deaf Mom Shares Her World – both very inspirational blogs about life, love and overcoming the odds 🙂 – feed myself a polony sandwich for breakfast, watch TV, email Kidz – a disability website – my story – holding thumbs that they’ll publish it 🙂 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, watch some more TV, feed myself Pizza for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

Today I stumbled onto an article called 30 Things A Woman Should Not Try Before 30 and while I did agree with some of the things on that list I believe that rules are highly overrated so I say live your life the way you want to as long as you don’t hurt yourself or anybody else in the process because at end of the day the best things in life are unplanned. Have you sucked all the fun out of your life by walking around with a checklist in the back of your mind?

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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!