{"id":47181,"date":"2022-06-24T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47181"},"modified":"2022-06-24T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:26:27","slug":"its-all-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/06\/24\/its-all-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s all energy.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>I reflect on stuff all the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s my poetic mind (I like to believe that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s nothing but reflecting, chewing, drifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And maybe there\u2019s no glorious reasoning behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019ll just go for the poetic mind anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A moment ago I realized how intensely amazing it is that everything has been written about by now, yet there\u2019s still plenty of room for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a finite amount of words we can work with, but we haven\u2019t used them up, and never will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originality is not just finding new grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also walking and exploring the old ones, but with a new feeling, a new appreciation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new freshness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, it\u2019s absolutely clear that writing is the act of capturing energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My excitement, my wonder, my curiosity, it&#8217;s all somehow injected into words, soaked up by them, ready to ooze out again when being read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean&#8230;. stuff like that never ceases to leave me utterly speechless, and humble, and deliciously lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What IS energy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talk about it like it\u2019s banana bread, or garbage bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s all energy.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it has been written about in many, many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talked about in many, many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many beautiful ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But never exactly like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about that?<\/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 @nbmat, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reflect on stuff all the time. Life stuff. Maybe it\u2019s my poetic mind (I like to believe that). Or maybe it\u2019s nothing but reflecting, chewing, drifting. And maybe there\u2019s no glorious reasoning behind it. But I\u2019ll just go for the poetic mind anyway. So\u2026 A moment ago I realized how intensely amazing it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47182,"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":[97,117,100,105,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47181"}],"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=47181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47183,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47181\/revisions\/47183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}