{"id":30809,"date":"2020-04-13T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=30809"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:54:46","slug":"never-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2020\/04\/13\/never-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Never the same."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world will never be the same again, they say.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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And that is true.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But mostly because it has always been that way.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There\u2019s nothing but change and flux and flow, all the time, always.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Or is there?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Our minds can masterfully pretend that everything is just the same.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That today is exactly like yesterday.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That life is a drag.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That living on autopilot is an obligation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And that, in the end, we\u2019re simply repeating ourselves straight into our graves.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As long as we\u2019re caught up in patterns and habits and memories, it will very much look that way.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As long as we th\u00ednk life instead of living it, we\u2019ll keep on waking up on Groundhog Day.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Being a grownup is a marvel-killer, a curiosity-cruncher.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Once we\u2019ve seen a flower, we\u2019ve seen them all.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s just a bee.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s only a cloud (who cares).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s nothing more than another day in another year in the same old life.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The wonder of being, covered in a tired layer of blas\u00e9.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But then, one day, you might fall out of your head.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Straight back into awe.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And the world will never be the same.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The world will never be the same again, they say. And that is true. But mostly because it has always been that way. There\u2019s nothing but change and flux and flow, all the time, always. Or is there? Our minds can masterfully pretend that everything is just the same. That today is exactly like yesterday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30810,"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":[97,96,117,100,116,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809"}],"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=30809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30812,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809\/revisions\/30812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}