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#throwback to the days spent getting lost and taking #handstand pictures around a new city with @viajulius | you hold the 🗝 to my 💕 here's to another year filled with more traveling and a lot more yoga! #yogacommunity #yogaeverydamnday #beginneryogini #handstandlove #handstandchallenge365 #washingtondc #yogalifestyle (at Washington, District of Columbia)
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someone told me the other day, she thought people only had one reason to speak ill of me. She said, "You have found a perspective on life they have yet to find. You always see the good in others and they cannot." •• and that broke my heart •• yes, people are often unreasonable and can be self-centered (myself included) forgive them anyway for they are human. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest still. If you find happiness before others, they may end up jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do within each day may be forgotten tomorrow. But do good anyway. Give the world the best you have because it could change the world for one person. { M.T. } Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind »» H™ #indyyoga #yogacommunity #yogathoughts #yogaeverydamnday #handstandchallenge365 #yogalifestyle #handstandlove #mysanctuary (at Indianapolis Downtown)
January 11th, 2016: Powerball Perspective
These past 14 months have taught me so much about this world we live in, relationships, life, myself and I’ll be the first to say that Peace Corps is far more qualitative than quantitative. That being said, numbers have always fascinated me. I know that’s the science half of me speaking but numbers tell us so much about our health, our lives, and the world. So this morning as I waited for the rain to pass, I decided to do a little rough analysis.
I woke up to a hashtag trend tweet thing (whatever it means when everyone is talking about a popular topic) regarding the Powerball Jackpot being 1.3 billion USD. Minus the astronomical taxes and fees (which is just a small chunk of change comparatively) the final cash value is 806 million USD. Holy Moses.
Converted to Ugandan Shillings (ush or /= ), when today $1 equals about 3,400/=, that means the taxes removed from the Powerball Jackpot are 1.68 trillion Ugandan shillings alone. Which leaves the final Powerball cash value to be 2.74 trillion Ugandan shillings. Yes… 2,740,000,000,000/=.
That’s a lot of zeros.
But, why does this interest me? I digress.
At my school, 1 year of school fees for 1 pupil is roughly 200,000/= (which would include supplies, lunch, and uniform) so that’s about $60 a year. Most of my pupils don’t have supplies, uniforms, and lunch throughout the year so they pay about 100,000/= (or $30) a year, if they can manage to pay at all. But in a dream world everyone could have clothes, notebooks, and food so I focused on the first value, 200,000/=, because this is all theoretical anyways.
Primary school in Uganda is 7 years, P1 to P7. So 1 pupil pays 1.4 million shillings to finish their primary school education, which is a huge success especially for girls here. That’s a lot of money to pay for every son and daughter you have (a typical family here has anywhere from 4 to 12 children) which is why many children cannot finish school, and boys tend to get a preference when money will allow. So math, math, math… 7 years of school for one child (being fed and clothed, too) is a mere $411.76.
That’s less than the price of my Organic Chemistry textbook in college.
If we take the overall Powerball cash value of 2,740,000,000,000/=, when converted to Ugandan shillings, and divide it by 1,400,000,000/= (the rough price of 7 years of primary school education for one child in Uganda with supplies, uniforms, and lunch included) then the Powerball earnings could send 1,957,142 children to primary school in Uganda.
Almost two million children.
With the approximate population of Uganda at 39 million, and 48.1% of the population being under 14 years old, that means 18,759,000 humans in Uganda are primary aged. And to offer my “on the ground”, in the classroom insight? A whole lot of those 18 million kids are not in school right now.
Math, math, math. Our Powerball could put 9.6% of Uganda’s primary aged children (and 19% of the overall population currently) through seven years of school with a uniform, supplies, and lunch. That’s roughly 20% of primary-aged youth if they didn’t eat lunch or have uniforms like the majority of my pupils at school do each day.
[Side note: In 1996, the Universal Primary Education (UPE) program made “education free for children in Uganda” so that everyone could have access to free primary and secondary education. Wait, “free”? But, but, but? Well, that’s a much bigger discussion for a different day.]
Anyways, I know that was a lot of math and you are most welcome to double-check that, I won’t take it personally. And to be honest, I don’t really know where I was going with this. I guess all I wanted to do was offer you another perspective in life that I have happened to be lucky enough to learn. By no means am I saying “don’t go buy that Powerball ticket tonight,” because you better believe I would be the first person in line to test my luck if I was in America right now, too. Just as you hand over that $2 tonight, or perhaps $14 this week, think about what you just read and that those 14 dollars are one-half of a year of school for 1 of my pupils here.
But really, what I guess I am trying to do is to encourage you “to be grateful for having all that you have and for being all that you are,” which is the same thing I tell my pupils every day. For being able to read this right now or to own that space phone you may be reading this on or checking my math with. Be thankful for your life, regardless of the issues you might be facing today, because you just so happened to be born into a realm of privilege in this world. Just like my pupils are alive and in school with friends and a community around them, which is more than some people out there can say.
Lastly, know that my pupils once told me that they pray for “us.” I don’t know if “us” means Americans, or westerners, or adults in general. They pray that we can one day focus on our friends, family, and the time we spend together just as much as, if not more than, we focus on money, power, and things. They pray we “can smile, laugh, and be happy” each day.
If that’s not the most insightful way to start your Monday, I don’t know what is.
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you must do what you love •• H™ (at Indianapolis Downtown)
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» and in the end, she was stronger than the anguish » she stood tall; an impenetrable diamond » and the earth itself parted to let her pass » H™ #forearmstand #yogalifestyle #forearmvariation #beginneryogini #yogaeverydamnday #forearmbalance (at Indianapolis Downtown)
you create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, & your intentions create your reality »» H™ #yogacommunity #yogaeverydamnday #handstandlove #beginneryogini #handstandchallenge365 ( momma I did it 😊 ) (at Indianapolis, Indiana)
she is a scorpio | she is divine | she is magic | & she didn't have to wait on anyone to tell her in order for her to believe it | & that's what made her truly beautiful 💪🏻 #scorpiopose #beginneryogini #yogaeverydamnday #forearmstand #forearmvariation #yogalifestyle #yogacommunity (at Indianapolis Downtown)
....because everything is cooler upside down 🔃 #yogacommunity #absworkout #headstandvariation #headstandlove #yogaeverydamnday #beginneryogini 💪🏻H™ (at Indianapolis Downtown)
don't try to overhaul your life overnight • instead focus on making one small change at a time • over time, those small changes will add up to one big transformation • it isn't about perfection, it's about effort • and when you bring that continuous effort every single day, that's where transformation happens • that's when change occurs »» H™ three months from now, you will thank yourself • begin today #transformationtuesday #beginneryogini #yogainspiration #headstandlove #yogaeverydamnday #yogacommunity #headstandvariation (at Indianapolis Downtown)
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start now. start where you are. start with fear. start with pain. start with doubt. start with hands shaking. start with a trembling voice »» but start. start and don't stop. start where you are, with what you have. all that matters is { beginning } H™ #yogaeverydamnday #forearmstand #yogacommunity #forearmvariation #yogainspiration #beginneryogini #newyearsresolution #yogalifestyle (at Indianapolis Downtown)
maybe the { journey } isn't so much about becoming anything •• maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place »» 2015 was the hardest year of my life. My soul was completely shattered by an insecure man who tore me down and made me believe that I was worthy to no one. 2015 was also the best year of my life because through this struggle I shined like I never have before. I learned to unbecome who I was trying so hard to be, and love myself for who I really am. I found my | passion | It isn't about being worthy to anyone, it's about being worthy to yourself. Do you wake up every morning and love the person staring back at you in the mirror? 2016, I vow to focus on everything that makes me truly happy by spending every day smiling with the people I cherish. I want to love harder. Laugh more. I want to travel to far away destinations. Talk to complete strangers. Drink more coffee. Dance in my underwear every morning. I want to show not only myself, but everyone around me that life is meant to be { celebrated } for no reason other than merely being alive »» H™ #yogalifestyle #indyyoga #beginneryogini #happynewyears #backbend2016 #flexibility #yogaeverydamnday #yogainspiration (at Indianapolis Downtown)
December 31, 2015 »» this year I learned to make the right choices in life, you must get in touch with your soul. not your external appearance, but digging deep and finding out internally who you are. to do this, { YOU } need to experience solitude, { YOU } need to experience being on your own, finding out what { YOU } love. Learning to breathe deeply. to taste food from its purest form. to listen to music { YOU } like. laughing like hell just because. just being alive for { YOU } yet, most people are scared to do this because they are afraid that within this silence you will hear the truth. most people don't want to know the truth, but from this truth you will find the solutions to your problems. learn to live on your own, to make it on your own, to thrive on your own...and in turn this will one day help you to thrive with a companion. »» H™ #yogathoughts #beginneryogini #newyear #yogaeverydamnday #flexibility #yogainspiration #indyyoga #yogalifestyle (at Indianapolis Downtown)
we all mess up, it's bound to happen, but never carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above, to grow stronger. the only real mistake you can make is one in which you learn nothing from. Somewhere between what you survive and who you become is exactly where you are meant to be; that is { YOUR JOURNEY } embrace every second of it »» H™ #yogaeverydamnday #yogalifestyle #beginneryogini #newyear #yogainspiration #indyyoga #splitsvariation (at Indianapolis, Indiana)
The worst thing is watching someone drown in a puddle & not being able to convince them that they can save themselves by just standing up »» H™ #yogacommunity #beginneryogini #yogalifestyle #yogaeverydamnday #strength #flexibility
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Today starts #day1 of my new journey as I embark on a new year •• Today I move into my very first apartment all on my own. Granted it is not exactly how or where I imagined my life being upon graduating from college but that is the miracle of { YOUR JOURNEY } it never ceases to amaze you. Don't feel guilty if you don't exactly know just yet what you want to do with your life. Some of the most interesting people didn't know what they wanted to do at 23, and I know some pretty interesting 40-year-old's who are still trying to find their path. The key to success is not about looking for happiness, it is about being happy, here and now, with what you have. Get plenty of calcium, your knees will thank you later in life, tell the ones you love how much they mean to you because they may be gone tomorrow, enjoy your body and love every curve it entails. Don't be afraid of it or care too much about others' opinions. Your body is the greatest instrument you will ever own. Play it to its fullest potential 💪🏻 »»H™ #forearmbalance #yogacommunity #beginneryogini #yogalifestyle #yogainspiration #yogaeverydamnday #treehouseyoga #happiness #movingforward #savasana (at Tree House Yoga)
•• families don't have to match, you don't have to look like someone else to love them •• families aren't always who you share blood with, families are who you would give blood for •• #adoptionrocks #miraclechild #january14th #mychristmaspresent (at Columbus, Indiana)
