Hi, I'm Demi, I'm 23. I come on here to ramble about my latest thoughts on life and what I'm getting up to in mine.

Thursday 12 February 2015

Katie Piper - An Inspiration


Ever since I heard about Katie's story, I have followed her life very closely as I could not quite believe what this poor woman was having to going through. Katie Piper has well and truly come out the other side and is an absolute inspiration to not just victims of what she went through but to everyone. 

If you are unaware, in 2008 Katie Piper was attacked with acid that was thrown in her face,this was an evil scheme plotted by her boyfriend. He had a a dodgy background that Katie didn't know anything about,he'd previously served a jail sentence for throwing boiling water in another mans face. Katie wasn't too keen on him and was planning to end the short relationship anyway. Lynch as he is known also raped and beat Katie shortly before the acid attack, and kept her hostage for eight hours in the hotel they were due to stay in.
‘The blood from my head wound was everywhere – on the bed, on the carpets, on the bathroom tiles"

Katie feared for her life and didn't tell the police and didn't tell anyone exactly what had happened. Days later Lynch bombarded Katie with apologies and sent her an email. Katie had to go to an Internet cafe to read it as she had no Internet connection, on her walk to the cafe was when dreaded attack happened and Katie's life was changed forever.

Katie could have let this absolutely destroy her and for a while it did emotionally and physically. She will never forget such an ordeal, but Katie is now doing amazingly well in moving forward with her life and leaving what she can in the past. 
Katie Piper was an aspiring model and TV presenter before the attack. Now Katie is an amazing role model that many people look up to and rely on to help them cope especially if they have been in similar situations to Katie.
Katie has started to carve a brilliant career in TV and as an author and has been awarded A Pride of Britain Award and has previously been voted Woman of the Year. Both very well deserved.

Katie set up The Katie Piper Foundation in 2009 and says "the vision is a world where scars do not limit a persons function,social inclusion or sense of well-being" (http://www.katiepiperfoundation.org.uk/meet-katie/


I believe Katie is a massive inspiration to everyone and I will continue to look up to her as a very inspirational and strong woman. It just shows how you can come back from being so low and wanting to give up, but not being defeated, changing your life, and moving onto bigger and better things. 

"You never know what being strong is until being strong is your only choice" .


Demi x

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Monday 2 February 2015

Busy...but good busy.

Hello Everyone :)

'Busy but good busy' / 'Time flies when you're having fun' - This is basically the reason for lack of blog posts. I have been so busy it's ridiculous well it is for me as I'm never that busy haha. 

It's typical that I have left my blog so long and not written anything, when I have had the busiest month ever with so much to write about! I don't understand why I have done this either.

Moving on.

So since my last post, one thing that has happened is that I am in a new relationship and I'm very happy, I don't want to say too much as I want to keep it private, but it is going very well and I'm so glad I/we decided to go for it .

I have FINALLY booked my driving test! If I didn't book it soon,I would have never have done it. It's been a about a month since I booked it and I booked it 3 months in advance so I still have plenty of time until the day, so at the moment it's just about going over everything and making sure I can still do it all properly and to a passable level! EEEEK. All my friends passed 1st or 2nd time, so no pressure.

In the new year two things I have started doing is writing letters and drinking green tea. I have always quite liked the idea of writing letters and in my new diary (I never use them,but am determined to stick with this one ALL year, so far,so good) on the 13th January it said 'Send a letter Day' so  I did...and I sent it to my Nan. I got a reply soon after and now we are 3 letters in and it's going well! I love receiving it in the post, and looking forward to it each week. The Green Tea, I like tea and I have always thought about trying Green Tea but never really bothered. I thought well it's still tea and it's not a very 'out there' one so it can't be too bad, and it's meant to be good for you. So I did it, I went and got some green tea, doesn't look great but doesn't actually taste too bad,I think I'm used to the taste now.

My current dilemma is deciding between finding a new general/full time job,a media job (as Print Based Media is what I did at College) or going to Uni. AHHHHHHHHH. 
So much to look at, information overload. 

It feels so good to be writing this again, I still have plenty to say but you will have to wait till next time...


Lots of Love
Demi x
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