{"id":31177,"date":"2021-03-14T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=31177"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:11:19","slug":"moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2021\/03\/14\/moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving on."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>I could have stayed there.<\/h3>\n<p>At least theoretically.<\/p>\n<p>I could have kept on doing what I had been doing.<\/p>\n<p>Forever and ever.<\/p>\n<p>Doing what I knew how to do pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>Nice and safe and predictable and successful.<\/p>\n<p>I could have been a copywriter, still.<\/p>\n<p>A creative director.<\/p>\n<p>A 3P coach.<\/p>\n<p>A non-dual teacher.<\/p>\n<p>A cynical twitter master.<\/p>\n<p>Or a singer, even.<\/p>\n<p>I could have.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Because one day life took that away from me.<\/p>\n<p>One day I simply lost interest.<\/p>\n<p>And had to move on.<\/p>\n<p>Just like I lost interest in being an alcoholic.<\/p>\n<p>A depressed dad.<\/p>\n<p>An anxious lost and lonely person.<\/p>\n<p>One day it stopped.<\/p>\n<p>And I moved on.<\/p>\n<p>Now what?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>How unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>How alive.<\/p>\n<p>How amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that I\u2019ll land somewhere else and be excited again.<\/p>\n<p>Old thing out, new thing in.<\/p>\n<p>A conscious drifter.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by @tuzbro, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could have stayed there. At least theoretically. I could have kept on doing what I had been doing. Forever and ever. Doing what I knew how to do pretty well. Nice and safe and predictable and successful. I could have been a copywriter, still. A creative director. A 3P coach. A non-dual teacher. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31179,"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":[97,117,100,116,113,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177"}],"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=31177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31178,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177\/revisions\/31178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}