{"id":48742,"date":"2023-04-04T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=48742"},"modified":"2023-04-04T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:09:41","slug":"let-me-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2023\/04\/04\/let-me-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Let me in?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>It takes one to know one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A plain player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inhabitant of a tiny, secure place within the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not ideal, there\u2019s not much going on, and you might even be suffering like crazy behind that sturdy door, but it\u2019s what you have, and it\u2019s what you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why would you let anybody into your world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, one reason could be that you don\u2019t really like that world anymore, and now there\u2019s a rising desire to expand it or explore other ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve recently realized that your world is actually your creation, so you\u2019d like some help changing it, making it more vivid and exciting and fulfilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fresh set of eyes and a big open heart can point out things in your world that are invisibly amazing, things that have been holding you back, things you don\u2019t see anymore, and things that would make everything fresh and awesome again if you just tweaked them slightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After living in our worlds for so many years we can grow tired of exploring, and we start to see sameness instead of aliveness and newness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today feels like yesterday, and tomorrow will not be much different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tend to get blas\u00e9 and constantly relive the same situations, and it can feel like we\u2019re superglued to a fixed body with a fixed mind chewing on the same old problems and challenges over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this sound like your stuffy little world right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you feel stuck in there, if you\u2019re merely hiding in life, hoping that one day everything will be suddenly different, and if you\u2019re really, REALLY fed up with that, let me in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said: it takes one to know one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like you I know about the comfort of staying where you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like you I have felt terrified to change it, even when it was the thing I wanted the most, for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like you, I thought I could do it alone, and there was no way I\u2019d invite another human being in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just like you, I guess, I desperately wanted to break free, but I didn&#8217;t know where to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trust me, and I will honor that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will bring a universe to hold your world, so we can create a new one together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will not demolish anything until you ask me to, and then I&#8217;ll ask you to join me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excited to see your world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knock knock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes one to know one. A hider. A plain player. The inhabitant of a tiny, secure place within the universe. It\u2019s not ideal, there\u2019s not much going on, and you might even be suffering like crazy behind that sturdy door, but it\u2019s what you have, and it\u2019s what you know. It\u2019s safe. So why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48743,"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":[99,102,97,96,117,100,105,115,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48742"}],"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=48742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48745,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48742\/revisions\/48745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}