Reading the words of others is learning from them – that’s what I keep learning 🙂

It’s 12  : 50 PM on day 1092 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,  feed myself boiled egg and  Bran Flakes for breakfast,  read 1 Samuel 26,  pray,  publish my Disability of the Day feature, read Stop saying that – a blog post about what not to say when someone is going through difficult situations this blog post really put things into perspective for me here I was my biggest problem was that nobody was donating to my campaign while somewhere there was a mother facing the possibility of losing her son – watch Slavery: A 21st Century Evil : Charcoal slaves – a documentary about charcoal slaves in Brazil watching the documentary I realized we inadvertently enable slavery by not asking questions about the products we buy did you know you can scan the barcode of a product into the Free2Work app and find out everything you need to know about the product –  tweet and Facebook about my campaign -nobody donated so far today either but I’m not giving up because I know God is working on it – spend time outside – I don’t want to look back on my life and remember spending all my time in front of a laptop I want to enjoy life and help people one of my dreams is to spend time at an orphanage I know that the kids there are very loved by the people who work there but I would love to go there and give them a little extra love 🙂   – practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles and stretch my hamstrings.

Last night I finally finished reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom – it’s about this guy Eddie who dies and the five people he meets in heaven who explain to him why things happened in his life the way it did –  I learned a few things from the book  1) all life is connected nothing happens at random 2) sacrifice is something to aspire to when you give something precious away you’re not losing it you’re merely passing it on 3) when you withhold forgiveness you’re hurting yourself more than you’re hurting the other person 4) life has to end love doesn’t 5) every life has a purpose.  What have you learned from your favourite writers?