Lovely evening, I am sitting on the front porch, listening to the sound of sape, a traditional string instrument from Borneo.  It is a wooden-base instrument with strings attached, and played like a guitar. The harmonious sounds of frogs and rain, the cool breeze of air, the wet pavement and grass… Everything is covered with yellow lights from the street lamp.. our usually packed housing complex is surprisingly quiet at this moment, so yes it’s really lovely.

I found two interesting matters this week: one, I became more and more comfortable with my skin, and two, I think I’m almost free from Facebook addiction!

Maybe these two are correlated, well I do think Facebook has some serious impact on how I see myself. No matter how diligent I am to curate the content appears in my time line, but the message of comparison is way too loud to be ignored. Now I can go days without checking in to Facebook, hence I said I think I almost free from the Facebook addiction. I’m working the same thing with Instagram… But I don’t find it too hard… Because from the very first time I made an Instagram account, it’s way too fast for me.. I am a slow person, I need to digest almost everything slowly but Instagram is an instant kingdom,. everything moves in a matter of seconds.

Being comfortable with my skin… Admittedly, I am too, slow to know how to be comfortable with my own skin. It took me more than 30 years… To be at this point. Before the era of social media, the criticism and comparison came from the closest human… Parents, close friends, relatives, and my peers. But nowadays I am having a great relationship with myself. A good reader, an aspiring half marathoner, a hopeful yoga practitioner, a person who wants to provide homemade bread for her family etc.

Cheers, time is a beautiful yet complicated things. Do what you can today, live day by day gratefully.

K Sabrina