{"id":46908,"date":"2022-05-28T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46908"},"modified":"2022-05-28T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T20:01:32","slug":"fresh-pieces-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/05\/28\/fresh-pieces-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh pieces of life."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don\u2019t know why you read what I write, but you obviously do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it just a bit of distraction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you looking for a way out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think you can learn something from these posts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or does what I write really annoy you, and is that why you\u2019re here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a weird and wonderful thing to reflect on, me creating all this stuff without not really knowing what it does for you, or to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always like to believe that the effect it has on people is lasting and liberating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I also know what we, human beings, are like: always looking for the next bit of captivating interruption, keeping our precious attention occupied with something that is not our usual shitty thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe that\u2019s the majority of you, and I appreciate my humble role as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There must be thousands of people who\u2019ve read my stuff over the years, and most of them I will never meet or be in contact with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another weird and wonderful realization, even a bit sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just keep pumping out this stuff, hopefully filled with some good energy, a dash of hope, and some clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to think that the moments of freshness that spark these little slices of life somehow make it into your heart, instead of your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no strategy going on here, at least not one that I\u2019m aware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s just life sharing little stories about itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Bless you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

I don\u2019t know why you read what I write, but you obviously do. Is it just a bit of distraction? Are you looking for a way out? Do you think you can learn something from these posts? Or does what I write really annoy you, and is that why you\u2019re here? It\u2019s a weird and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46909,"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":[97,117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46908"}],"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=46908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46911,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46908\/revisions\/46911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}