{"id":46296,"date":"2022-02-17T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46296"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:33:43","slug":"life-is-here-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/02\/17\/life-is-here-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is here for us."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>No matter how hard I try not to, I keep doing it anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for the rules of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extracting patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exploring causality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to find the things that lead to other things, always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And sometimes I just stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I laugh about my attempts, with gratitude and respect and appreciation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life is SO damn amazing that there is not even a good word to describe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can think and believe one thing for decades, then just drop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can think that we are in control, at least somehow, and then realize how ridiculous that idea really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything is here for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every opinion, every philosophy, every method, every grain of sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science is here, angels are here, holding on to something and surrendering are here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life is here for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is an endless playground, a borderless field of opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we are SO free, that we can believe the exact opposite, and feel small and caged in and unworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything is here for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moments of triumph and instances where we \u2018get it\u2019, or situations where being lost doesn\u2019t even come close to what we experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am writing this because it occurred to me to start a post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am writing this as life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are reading this as life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life is here, for me, for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it doesn\u2019t matter if you try really hard or drop everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How are you gonna play today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo by @taylorkopel, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how hard I try not to, I keep doing it anyway. Looking for the rules of life. Extracting patterns. Exploring causality. Trying to find the things that lead to other things, always. And sometimes I just stop. And I laugh about my attempts, with gratitude and respect and appreciation. Life is SO damn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wakkerworden","category-english","category-inzichten","category-persoonlijk","category-zingeving","category-spiritualiteit","category-eigenwijs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46296","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=46296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46299,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46296\/revisions\/46299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}