Marsha Maung: I write. I love. I live

If there's one thing everyone hates, including my 'otherwise quite calm second child', is slow internet. For some reason, we were experiencing too many bouts of such incidences a week ago. For me, the internet is largely used for work, social media, streaming of shows and stalking people on social media . So, if the internet gets slow, I stalk less people and read a book or the newspaper. For modern folks, especially people my kids' age, there is no alternative to the internet. Well...hardly. They talk on the internet. They play games on the internet. They watch on the internet. They read on the internet. They socialize on the internet. They learn on the internet. They get homework on the internet. They get their assignments done on Google Drive, really! The internet is everything to them. To many of us as well but, as mentioned, we older people have an alternative because we lived half our lives without the internet. We still suffer, nonetheless, but muc...

Today, I just want to share something with you, it's Monday and I think we need to be reminded of the fact that sometimes, we just need to be who we are. The toughest critics on the planet are not your parents, not your sister or brother, not your best-friend and God forbid, let it not be your boss or colleagues. The toughest critic in your life is YOU . The voice of doubt, that uncertainty and that crippling anxiety. If you've not experienced this, WOW, you're an amazing person and keep at it. But for the rest of us, we've probably felt this at least once (come on, admit it) in our lives. Even when the people around us cheer us on and tell us that we've got this, that bloody voice in our heads keeps yapping away. You're gonna SUUUUUCCCKKKKKK!!!! You're going to trip and fall on your face. Look at them, they're smiling but inside, deep inside, they're praying to God that this will be the end of you. Trust me. Look at that smile, it's a smirk...