building oneself

I'm listening to Healing Piano by Yiruma as I type this... it's kind of funny, kind of whimsy, and wonderful how I start many of these posts with a note of what I'm listening to. It just goes to show how much music permeates our lives... and for the most part, for all the good reasons. Indeed, just like the name of the album suggests, music can heal.

Came across the photo on the right. It's a capture of the everyday - a cup of cappuccino accompanied with a crossword puzzle from The New York Times. Looks rather simple, doesn't it? But yet, on a closer reading, I don't find it so. Today, it's hard to reach some simplicity in life... the photo itself, is one taken of a leisure activity -- one in which the photographer has taken ownership in carving out time for. I realised, upon stumbling this, that this is the kind of life I wish to have.

One of solidarity, leisure time planned out, and time just to oneself. I hope to have one like such in the near future... understanding that it's not one that I can build one, right here right now. It takes time to make changes, and this time I will be the patient one.