{"id":46629,"date":"2022-04-28T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46629"},"modified":"2022-04-28T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:06:04","slug":"what-if-we-actually-could-love-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/04\/28\/what-if-we-actually-could-love-more\/","title":{"rendered":"What if we actually could love more?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Can we love life exactly as it is?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Completely, fully, aaaaall the way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is both a philosophical question and an opportunity to practically explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because not loving life the way it is seems logical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a lot we don\u2019t appreciate about how stuff works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many things need improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a lot that\u2019s wrong, unfair, unbalanced, fucked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why would we ever love THAT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wouldn\u2019t that mean that we actually agree with whatever is wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do we change things from there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where\u2019s the compassion in that?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wouldn\u2019t people take advantage of us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You see, the question of loving life fully brings up a lot of fierce resistance and harsh judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loving life fully, embracing life without holding back, seems to be the easy way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unrealistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egotistical, even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what if it\u2019s not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if loving EVERYTHING is actually the only thing the world really needs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if we could drop the cynicism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How would it change your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if you\u2019d be able to drop the idea that fighting life is unavoidable and necessary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to me that loving everything exactly as it is would open up a whole new world of creative possibilities, beyond resistance and force and aggression and opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not that I know how to do it, but I definitely like the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s simple, and you don&#8217;t have to agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, it feels exciting and liberating, expansive and rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without all the objections, it simply feels really good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I\u2019ll just follow that.<\/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 @benwhitephotography, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we love life exactly as it is? Completely, fully, aaaaall the way? This is both a philosophical question and an opportunity to practically explore. Because not loving life the way it is seems logical. There\u2019s a lot we don\u2019t appreciate about how stuff works. Many things need improvement. There\u2019s a lot that\u2019s wrong, unfair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46630,"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":[97,117,100,105,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wakkerworden","category-english","category-inzichten","category-liefde","category-persoonlijk","category-zingeving","category-relaties","category-spiritualiteit","category-eigenwijs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46629","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=46629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46636,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46629\/revisions\/46636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}