{"id":452,"date":"2024-08-31T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2024-08-31T00:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T04:04:49","slug":"pick-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"pick something"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>it&#8217;s getting late, or maybe early. everyone is in bed but me. i&#8217;m not tired. well, no, i am tired, but i am not sleepy. if i went to bed right now i would likely just stare at the ceiling for hours.. so here we are. i wish i had some distraction right now to keep my brain focused on something else, but everything just feels kind of empty tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>something happened today, and it didn&#8217;t feel good.  i said things i should have kept to myself.  i thought about things i didn&#8217;t want to think about.  i felt things i know i shouldn&#8217;t feel.  why do i keep doing that?  why can&#8217;t i just be normal?  why do i have to stir the pot all the fucking time?  why can&#8217;t i just be happy?  why can&#8217;t i just be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when i started this, i was really not ok.  i needed to explore the &#8220;why&#8221; of that.  maybe if i could understand the why, then perhaps i could have some kind of control over it and make it stop.  but the more i dig, the dirtier it gets.  and tonight i feel like i&#8217;m neck deep in muck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>around every corner there are new questions, new problems, new dilemmas and i&#8217;m not actually getting anywhere i want to be.  i&#8217;m just making things worse.  i&#8217;ve been trying to talk about it, but every time i start, i&#8217;m smothered with shame, guilt, embarrassment and it&#8217;s preventing me from really being honest.  and whether i try to push through that or i succumb to it, i just end up feeling even worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i don&#8217;t think i am a good person.  this isn&#8217;t what a good person does.  this is not what a good person has to deal with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fuck.  i can&#8217;t stay on this path.  something needs to change.  i swear i&#8217;m not a bad person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s getting late, or maybe early. everyone is in bed but me. i&#8217;m not tired. well, no, i am tired, but i am not sleepy. if i went to bed right now i would likely just stare at the ceiling for hours.. so here we are. i wish i had some distraction right now to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pick something<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}