{"id":7579,"date":"2018-04-04T20:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T02:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2018-04-04T20:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T02:49:19","slug":"happiness-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/musings\/happiness-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I need to say this right now: I am happy. I am grateful. I am in love and working hard and creating and thinking and striving and questioning and all the things that make me feel real and human and in progress.<\/p>\n

I don’t have doubts about the big questions in my life. Once upon a time I feared that I would never love or be loved. I am lucky that I have found someone special to spend my time with. He is a good person and he lets me be me and that counts for so much. Regarding Life at large, I have questions and sneaking suspicions and opinions and silly hot takes but by and large I am amazed at and fascinated with this life and very grateful for every gulp of air that gets processed by my lungs and synthesized into life. I am in awe of every mile traveled, every hour logged, every thought that goes from fleeting vapor to actual real action. I am a smart ape and I do things because I can and should but the things I’m allowed to experience that go beyond me? It borders on the surreal.<\/p>\n

What a strange and wonderful privilege it is to be alive and to experience the ennui and uncertainty and delight of a day in human skin.<\/p>\n

I don’t have religion but I have gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need to say this right now: I am happy. I am grateful. I am in love and working hard and creating and thinking and striving and questioning and all the things that make me feel real and human and in progress. I don’t have doubts about the big questions in my life. Once upon a time I feared that I would never love or be loved. I am lucky that I have found someone… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[523,31,127],"tags":[2353,2257,1027,2098,2186],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-musings","category-relationships","tag-gratitude","tag-health","tag-life","tag-living","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40168308075_36abb63b65_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1Yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7581,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/7581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}