Open up!

I wrote that I would buy a Kit-Kat for my treat on my other blog. My friend Heather wrote a comment, ‘you could do a little better than a Kit-Kat’, and I realized that I’ve minimized a lot of my desire over the year.

When I was living in American Samoa, where supply is so limited, I put many lids on my desire to avoid becoming miserable. I did it while I was there which was kind of my best choice. I saw many people who got so miserable and cried over what they couldn’t get. I was calmer than them.
But it’s over! I’m not living there anymore. It's good to realize that I’ve still kept putting many lids on my desire (shallow ones to deep ones), without thinking. Thanks Heather. I want to open them up again. Still a bag of Kit-Kat makes me smile, though.

Then I realized that I want to go to beach! I haven’t visited one for a long time even though I am living in Hawaii! I didn’t go to a beach because I was embarrassed to show my skin.
While I was in American Samoa, my skin was continuously beaten up by unknown spooky bugs (no repellents worked) and they left unpleasant dark spots on my legs. My legs look like a crocodile’s legs. But what the heck, I live in Hawaii, 20 min. away from the beach, what have I been doing?! The ocean will help my skin to heal!