{"id":31709,"date":"2021-05-18T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=31709"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:23:18","slug":"pain-without-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2021\/05\/18\/pain-without-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain without suffering."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This morning I&#8217;ll be visiting the dentist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s an old filling that has to be replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll ask for a local anesthetic (because I can).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it will sting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But how long?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just for a second, when the needle penetrates my gums when I\u2019m actually there in the chair?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or for HOURS, when I think and worry about it, and the agony of my imagination captures me in the experience before I am even there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We suffer from our ideas, our thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We suffer from our fantasy, our capacity to see things happen before they do (and most of them never happens anyway).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the anticipation that hurts the most and the deepest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that is really good to realize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the pain from my visit to the dentist will be limited to my visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the only moment that really counts in terms of pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it will hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But only for a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo by @carocaro1987, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I&#8217;ll be visiting the dentist. There\u2019s an old filling that has to be replaced. I\u2019ll ask for a local anesthetic (because I can). And it will sting. But how long? Just for a second, when the needle penetrates my gums when I\u2019m actually there in the chair? Or for HOURS, when I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wakkerworden","category-english","category-inzichten","category-persoonlijk","category-zingeving","category-spiritualiteit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=31709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31711,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709\/revisions\/31711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}