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Day 132

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~ Clay P. Bedford

It’s 10: 02 PM on day 132 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, go to church – I didn’t go up there and tell the congregation about my campaign not because I chickened-out but because I wanted to wait until I heard back from the Firstgiving team as to whether my campaign would be extended or not – hopefully they’ll get back to me but next Sunday so I can make the announcement then 🙂 – feed myself a KFC Twister – a wrap consisting of chicken strips and salad – for breakfast – my sister had to help me out a little because every time I tried to do it the contents of the wrap would fall out from the bottom but that’s okay sometimes asking help shows your strength rather than your weakness 🙂 – tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – no donations were made today 🙁 – and exercise for 5 minutes.

Growing up I didn’t see the point in going to school, but today when Kate – my friend on Twitter – told me that she could relate to my story because her twenty-one-year-old daughter suffered from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome to which I asked what’s Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and a few minutes later she replied a connective tissue disorder and it was in that moment that I finally understood that the primary purpose of an education is not to teach Math, Science or Biology, but rather to instil in you the confidence to absorb as well as question all the information that you receive. Do you still possess the thirst for knowledge that you acquired in the classroom? 🙂

Day 131

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People will not look to change the suffering they do not feel – that’s what I learned today 🙁

It’s 7: 14 PM on day 131 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself bread and egg for breakfast, email the Firstgiving team – I wanted to get my campaign extended to raise more money for The Water Project 🙂 – email The Water Project – I couldn’t find the video links I needed for the water party I’m planning – hopefully they’ll get back to by Monday 🙂 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours –no donations were made today, but I did get listed under the environmental section of the Groovy News Network – Thanks Kate 🙂 – exercise for 10 minutes and feed myself rice and curry for dinner.

Today I asked this guy on Twitter – I won’t mention his name – to organize a water party and donate the proceeds to my campaign and a few minutes later he replied back saying I don’t even know you and as I read that I thought to myself do you need to know someone to help them and in that moment I realized that the fundamental problem with today’s society is its inability to feel empathy. Are you able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes? 🙂

Day 128

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Be firm on principle but flexible on method. ~ Zig Ziglar

It’s 9: 42 PM on day 128 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, listen to music, design a poster for the fundraiser that my friends from the UK – @sapphire100 (Emma) and @laura_FilanFan (Laura) are organizing for my campaign – it’s not done yet but I’ve already typed out what I to say now all that’s left is the design aspect 🙂 – drink water by myself, watch TV – Dr. Phil was awesome today! 🙂 – tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – no luck today 🙁 – feed myself Chapati – an unleavened flatbread – grilled chicken and baked beans for dinner and exercise for 10 minutes.

Today I needed some information about The Water Project to put in my poster so I visited their website only to find out that the ‘Fund A Well For A Church’ ‘option had been replaced by the ‘Fund an Entire Well’ option which meant that I would have to raise $2 000 more than I intended if I wanted to build a well and with realization came complete devastation but a couple of minutes later I made a decision that I wouldn’t even think about the additional $2 000 that I needed to raise to build a well until I’d reached my initial fundraising target of $4 500. Do you make a conscious choice to adapt to whatever situation life throws at you? 🙂

Day 127

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

It’s 9: 52 PM on day 127 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, publish yesterday’s blog post – I fell asleep before I could actually click on ‘Publish’ LOL 🙂 – read everything in the media kit I downloaded from thewaterproject.org – the kit is SO cool it’s got info about the organization, posters logos and brochures – tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – I didn’t get any donations through Twitter today but I woke to find that my cousin from Australia had made a donation of $107 and the funny part is I didn’t even ask her – gotta love family 🙂 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, watch TV, feed myself grilled chicken for lunch, drink Fanta by myself and exercise for 30 minutes.

Today I was sitting in front my laptop doing my own thing when suddenly I remembered my grandpa picking things that looked like looked like little orange beads off a tree for me and placing them in my left hand and even though I knew in my heart that he was living in eternity now I still couldn’t stop the tears from running down my cheeks because I barely knew this man I called my grandpa – he lived in India with my grandma and we lived in South Africa – but then I realized that sometimes love was about quality of memories rather than quantity and with that I was all cried out. When you lose someone you love do you dwell on the one day that they died or focus on all the other days that they lived? 🙂