{"id":46809,"date":"2022-05-20T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46809"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:02:14","slug":"the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/05\/20\/the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Are you on track?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you living the life you\u2019re supposed to live?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or the one you deserve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you following the gentle voice inside?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is your bliss guiding you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have experienced those questions many times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They came up a lot in my life, especially in recent years, and I\u2019ve contemplated them, investigated them, and followed up on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes they make total sense and feel totally inspiring (and many blogs are effortlessly created).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And sometimes they seem nothing but bullshit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love the notion of The Hero\u2019s Journey, where you leave the village to face a challenge, overcome many hardships, and return with loads of victory and wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For storytelling creatures that stuff is amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like karma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Synchronicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soulmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serendipity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The everyday fairytales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can believe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can even depend on it and build our lives around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of us do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what if there are no REAL tracks, to begin with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if there\u2019s no \u2018life you\u2019re supposed to live\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, do whatever feels good anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take life and run with it.<\/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 @jxb511, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you on track? Are you living the life you\u2019re supposed to live? Or the one you deserve? Are you following the gentle voice inside? Is your bliss guiding you? I have experienced those questions many times. They came up a lot in my life, especially in recent years, and I\u2019ve contemplated them, investigated them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46810,"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":[97,117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wakkerworden","category-english","category-inzichten","category-persoonlijk","category-zingeving","category-relaties","category-spiritualiteit","category-eigenwijs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46809","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=46809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46811,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46809\/revisions\/46811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}