{"id":30579,"date":"2020-01-23T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=30579"},"modified":"2020-01-23T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:08:13","slug":"wasting-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2020\/01\/23\/wasting-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasting time."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Can you ruin the day?<\/h4>\n<p>Can you really waste time?<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to let the minutes slip through your fingers?<\/p>\n<p>Is there a better way to spend our lives, or do we ever only spend our lives the way we spend it?<\/p>\n<p>I guess you\u2019ve pondered questions like these.<\/p>\n<p>I know I did, and I still do.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the gray days.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, worrying about wasting time might be the ultimate way to waste time.<\/p>\n<p>(If wasting time is even possible.)<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that sad?<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about where you could have been, who you could have been, the things you could have possessed, and the relations you could have cherished.<\/p>\n<p>Could have, if life only hadn\u2019t been the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>Could be, if dreams were more true than what\u2019s happening right here, in the now, the place where gurus live.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we do that, slapping on thick layers of hurt and frustration by judging ourselves for being who we are, and not who we could have been -if only?<\/p>\n<p>Why do we spend SO MUCH FUCKING time contemplating what\u2019s not?<\/p>\n<p>Well: we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>It just happens.<\/p>\n<p>And we buy into it, the way trained monkeys grab a piece of stale fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Most of our lives is wasted thinking about the life that never was, and never will be.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like a deeply perverse hobby, a twisted longing for suffering.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, nothing was really wasted, ever.<\/p>\n<p>Only in theory.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck living in th\u00e1t place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you ruin the day? Can you really waste time? Is it possible to let the minutes slip through your fingers? Is there a better way to spend our lives, or do we ever only spend our lives the way we spend it? I guess you\u2019ve pondered questions like these. I know I did, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30583,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions\/30583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}