{"id":46782,"date":"2022-05-17T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46782"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:55:02","slug":"very-much-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/05\/17\/very-much-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Very much alive."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you ever had a day that was incredible?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where everything seemed to work out and flow and radiate with ease and joy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And did you ever wake up, maybe the next day, feeling as if all of that ease and flow and joy was gone, just gone completely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the only thing that was left was a bleak memory in a cold, complicated world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever had weeks that went by in a second?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And hours that took forever to pass?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you felt love, hate, and pain, in a single afternoon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever worried about something that didn\u2019t happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And did you ever realize that most of the things you worry about never happen, and felt incredible relief?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And have you forgotten about that, until you remembered again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever had mediocre, ordinary days?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And moment where you looked back at those mediocre days and wished your life could be like that all the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you been lost, then found again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you been lost and somehow got rid of that idea without realizing it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you felt like you were on top of the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you felt down, even deeper than down, as if life was a big boot that crushed you till you were rock bottom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you loved, or grieved, and have you ever believed that life couldn\u2019t get any worse, ever?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then it went up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever felt in control?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And have you also surrendered and got down on your knees, because you realized you weren\u2019t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has life tasted sweet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has it been bitter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And did it ever bring 4 seasons’ worth of feelings in one single day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if it did, you know you\u2019re alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photo by @artemkovalev, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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