YVALIKS

More Focus, less Distraction

Last week, Instagram launched a new social media app called Threads. It was created to rival Twitter who according to the ‘kids’, is no longer fun since Elon Musk took over. He brought in changes that made most people claiming that Twitter will now be on its way out. I have been using Instagram since…
Letter to young Yveline

My dear YvelineTomorrow is a special dayCannot believe this big age is upon usWe may have to put all of this in a book one dayIt has been an incredible journey It doesn’t look like what we expectedYou probably think that we had a quiet rideThe beginning was quite unassuming to be honestThis is the…
Seasons change

One of my favourite biblical passage is found in Ecclesiastes 3. It is titled: ‘There is a time for everything’. In it the author states that there are cycles in life and seasons for everything. For example, there is a time to laugh and there is a time to cry; there is a time to…
Keep Moving Forward

I got one my life motto from an unassuming Disney animated movie called ‘Meet the Robinsons’. It is the story of an orphan named Lewis, determined to become a scientist so he can build a time machine to go in the past and find his birth mother. Things however takes a turn when he meets…
A Minimalist experience

One of the first documentary I watched on Netflix was ‘The Minimalists’. It follows two men, who after losing family members and corporate jobs, decided to embrace a minimalist lifestyle. I watched it because the concept of minimalism had always interested me. After watching the documentary, I started to explore the subject more, by watching…
Accepting…Kinshasa

It has now being nine months since I bought a one-way ticket to spend a year in Kinshasa, in D.R.Congo. So today is the time for me to write about some of the realities I am encountering here. I was born in Kinshasa but left at the age of two, and only came back aged…