Marsha Maung: I write. I love. I live

After the peeing-in-your-face incidents, shopping mall toddler tantrums, mentally-crippling bullying in school, high school entrance, cute puppy loves, worrying 24/7 internet invasion in their lives, teens don't cut their moms/dads any slack. Not even when they're fully-grown and completely capable of doing owning their own bank accounts and throwing out their own trash. A parent's job is just never done. Accordingly, moms work an average of 98 hours a week and that's why we're always 'Superheroes' who are tired AF  all the freaking time. 😂 My boys laugh at me for lasting all of 2 to 3 Youtube videos in bed at night before I automatically clock myself out of this world and into dreamland. Somehow, the tiredness grips me and yanks me headlong into involuntary rest - much like a tired toddler who vehemently insists that he/she is not tired. The morning started out with us joining son's friends at the ice-skating rink and since none of them seems w...

You set your goal at 5km. You reach it and set your goal at 10km. You reach it and set your goal to 15km. You reach it and set your goal to 20km. You reach it and set your goal to 25km. You reach it and set your goal to 30km. You reach it and set your goal to 35km. You reach it and set your goal to 40km. You reach it and set your goal to 45km. You reach it and set your goal to 50km. You reach it and set your goal to 55km. You reach it and set your goal to 60km. You reach it and set your goal to 65km. You reach it and set your goal to 70km. You reach it and set your goal to 75km. You reach it and set your goal to 80km. You reach it and...at this point, you should stop reading this paragraph because it's never going to end. The Idea Behind the Goal The idea is that once we achieve a set goal, we experience an epiphany of emotions . We're elated and give ourselves a pat on the back. Well done. I wouldn't call it a problem, but I WILL call it an endless loop simply because ...

We've got to be better than this. And the authorities have got to DO better than this. The news I got this morning was not only horrifying but it marks a point whereby we need to sit down and collectively come up with something better for the future of humankind, not just kids and their parents. But as human beings. For the love of God, why are there such monsters in our midst?! Horrifying! https://t.co/WHXfo4qhi1 — Marsha Maung ❤️💕💖😍🤣 (@marshamaung) November 11, 2018 The mother of the child uttered the bitter, vindictive words of “ I will not remain calm until the perpetrator is brought before the court and justice is served ”. To that, I say she's holding back an explosion of devastating emotions. I don't know if I would have been as polite. If it's not by the hands of God or fate, a child should not see such an end, no matter how many angles you try to look at it from, and how we try to argue it. Stress? Anger? Frustration. Drugs? Bad childhood? Alcoho...

You don't always get to choose what you're handed in life, but you get to choose your responses. It makes a world of difference the perspective you take about what's ahead in life. If we think of everything, including the bad, as miracles (it doesn't have to be), we are more peaceful. People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me, walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle - Thich Nhat Hanh Happy holiday, Malaysians! Love, Marsha