{"id":79,"date":"2024-07-18T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2024-07-18T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T17:44:22","slug":"math-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"math is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>it&#8217;s always been so easy.  maybe too easy.  right from day one.  there was never a chase, there was never a challenge, there was never any drama.  maybe that was a red flag that i missed?  no, i don&#8217;t think so.  easy doesn&#8217;t automatically mean bad.  does it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you always knew exactly what you wanted and how to get it.  that&#8217;s still one of the things i admire about you, even if i do resent you for it sometimes.  your laser focus disregards collateral damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mistakes and errors happen.  it&#8217;s normal and it&#8217;s ok.  doubling down on something that is wrong doesn&#8217;t fix anything.  repeating your point again, but louder, doesn&#8217;t fix anything either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to be fair, just agreeing to end the conflict doesn&#8217;t fix anything either.  i&#8217;m worried if i change that though it will not end well for either of us.  i don&#8217;t want to have arguments with you about things you know are wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sometimes you can allow yourself to be happy as well.  not everything is a crisis.  you don&#8217;t have to try fix everything.  sometimes it&#8217;s ok to just sit in the middle of the chaos and laugh.  it&#8217;s fine.  really!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i know you think the answer is some magic pill.  i disagree, but you do you.  the only thing i ask is to fucking do it, or stop talking about it.  it&#8217;s been years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i&#8217;m saying all of this to get it off of my chest, but i think i stopped caring long ago.  you&#8217;re not going to change, and neither am i.  maybe that&#8217;s fine.  maybe that&#8217;s ok.  we each have jobs to do, and honestly, i think we do them better than most.  look at the results or our labor, they truly are exceptional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we&#8217;re like an arithmetic problem in which you do all the steps wrong, but still end up with the right answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s always been so easy. maybe too easy. right from day one. there was never a chase, there was never a challenge, there was never any drama. maybe that was a red flag that i missed? no, i don&#8217;t think so. easy doesn&#8217;t automatically mean bad. does it? you always knew exactly what you wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">math is hard<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}