{"id":46647,"date":"2022-04-30T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T09:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46647"},"modified":"2022-04-30T09:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T09:33:31","slug":"fuck-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/04\/30\/fuck-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuck the list."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Look, there\u2019s a list!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a snarling, growling, angry collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s alive, it\u2019s hungry, and it\u2019s never satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the To-Do List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The File of Future Failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s huge and unforgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there\u2019s always more on it than you can handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We walk around and it whispers its demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou should do this, not that, and you should do it better than anyone else!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re supposed to do more, for longer, with more power and engagement and success!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018If you don\u2019t get this done life will fucking crumble before your eyes!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the lineup of activities that will eventually lead you to liberation (so we believe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just do more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just attain more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just study more, get more, travel more, love more, be more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More, more, MORE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for every piece we chew off, new stuff is added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just keeps growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list is a lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list is a very random bag of ideas and beliefs and promises that looks very real and important and demanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t believe the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t let your days be dominated by a stupid summary of future goals and activities that has absolutely no meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuck it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then fuck it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But don\u2019t make that the next thing on your list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @wizwow, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, there\u2019s a list! It\u2019s a snarling, growling, angry collection. It\u2019s alive, it\u2019s hungry, and it\u2019s never satisfied. It\u2019s the To-Do List. The File of Future Failures. It\u2019s huge and unforgiving. And there\u2019s always more on it than you can handle. The List. We walk around and it whispers its demands. \u201cYou should do this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46648,"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":""},"categories":[102,97,117,114,100,115,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647"}],"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=46647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46649,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647\/revisions\/46649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}