{"id":728,"date":"2025-01-19T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2025-01-19T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:27:46","slug":"how-am-i-supposed-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"how am i supposed to sleep?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>things do not feel so great tonight.  i&#8217;m trying so hard to keep my chin up, to focus on the positive, to think about the future&#8230;  it&#8217;s not quite so easy though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i don&#8217;t need much, but i do need a little bit.  i do need something&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tonight feels like i have less than nothing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i feel like i give and i give and in return, i get taken for granted.  i give and i give and then i get asked for more.  i give and i give and then i get ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>woe is me, i know.  i&#8217;m sure i am seeing this without considering the efforts someone, somewhere has made towards reciprocity or even the efforts made for my sole benefit.  i can&#8217;t help that.  if i don&#8217;t see it, how can i consider it?  faith?  foolishness?  naivety?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so what can i learn from this?  what is the lesson here?  should i be entirely self sufficient when it comes to my happiness?  pardon my french, but that&#8217;s a load of shit.  we&#8217;re social animals.  our brains are literally wired for it.  affection, companionship, understanding, comfort, love&#8230; all of those things are needs.  and all of those things require another person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what i wouldn&#8217;t give to be able to hold a hand right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>things do not feel so great tonight. i&#8217;m trying so hard to keep my chin up, to focus on the positive, to think about the future&#8230; it&#8217;s not quite so easy though. i don&#8217;t need much, but i do need a little bit. i do need something&#8230; tonight feels like i have less than nothing. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">how am i supposed to sleep?<\/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":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sad","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}