Inspired by Luna is now one year old. At the same time, I'm also a year older and hopefully a little bit wiser as well - it was my birthday yesterday. This past year has been full of change - big things and smaller ones, happy times and sad moments - buying our apartment and moving in, publishing my first knitting patterns, loneliness when my only good friend moved away and making new acquaintances, climbing the Great Wall in China and traveling to Greece, Turkey and Netherlands, having a hard past month or so with overwhelming fatigue... But at the end I feel like I'm much stronger and probably the most content with my life I've ever been. This is going to be a long post so please bear with me.
I've always suffered from a low self-esteem, comparing myself to others and always feeling I'm not enough. I come from a family where everyone is highly educated with university degrees and after graduating from high school I too went on to study physics. I guess I never r…