{"id":37,"date":"2003-04-04T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/04\/cruising\/"},"modified":"2003-04-04T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2003-04-04T14:38:51","slug":"cruising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/04\/cruising\/","title":{"rendered":"cruising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>no serious turmoil going on.<\/p>\n<p>sometimes i get angry at work, but that&#8217;s to be expected.  i have friends that i love and piss me off a lot, but that&#8217;s life.  i live with people that are either aloof, too busy, or overbearing but i deal with it.  i am not in a major relationship of any kind, which is probably a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>i think.<\/p>\n<p>i could spend time contemplating how miserable i was this past year, when my financial situation was uncertain and my heart constantly ached for a love that went sour, but would it be worth it?  i&#8217;ve started plenty of writing sessions focusing on the issues mentioned, but it always felt like i was overly whiny and that i couldn&#8217;t get my head on straight and i was just another fool who lived for drama and was too weak to get out of my self-loathing.  i&#8217;d usually end up feeling embarrassed or foolish with what i was willing to divulge and would end up <i>selecting all<\/i> and hitting the delete key.<\/p>\n<p>is it a fear of looking bad?  probably.  but why should i be?  i&#8217;ve never claimed to be perfect.  i&#8217;m nothing close to that.  i am living a life of consequences and mistakes, of disregard and sloth.<\/p>\n<p>my parents had such high hopes for me (i think my dad still might &#8211; my mother is probably just happy that i&#8217;m not dead).  doctor?  lawyer?  engineer?  all possibilities.  but i wanted to do it my own way.<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t be mistaken;  i&#8217;m not in a bad place.  not at all.  i read up on and hear about a lot of people&#8217;s lives and there&#8217;s this going on and that&#8217;s happened and <b><i>oh my god<\/i><\/b> that&#8217;s a lot of shit to deal with, and i&#8217;m thankful that some of it isn&#8217;t happening to me but feel guilty about not being completely content with my own life.<\/p>\n<p>fuck, i don&#8217;t know what i&#8217;m blabbing about.  i&#8217;m just lost, cruising down an unknown street, with no idea where to turn and whenever i stop to ask for directions i never like what i hear.<\/p>\n<p>can you dig it?<\/p>\n<p>maybe i&#8217;ll go watch <b>spirited away<\/b> again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no serious turmoil going on. sometimes i get angry at work, but that&#8217;s to be expected. i have friends that i love and piss me off a lot, but that&#8217;s life. i live with people that are either aloof, too busy, or overbearing but i deal with it. i am not in a major relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}