{"id":843,"date":"2025-05-05T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2025-05-05T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:39:25","slug":"im-not-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m (not) sure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>should i consider my recent lack of motivation to write a good thing, or a bad thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on one hand, typically i write when i feel like my head or heart might explode.  it&#8217;s a pressure relief system.  its an outlet which lets me express how i am feeling so it doesn&#8217;t eat me alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so now on the other hand, i am not feeling so motivated to write lately&#8230; does that mean there is less pressure to relieve?  does that mean i am feeling better?  does that mean i am starting to be happy and feel less tortured?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yesterday a friend of mine came to pick up l to bring him on a hike with her son.  when they got back she came in to chat for a quick minute and asked me if i was feeling happier, because i looked happier.  am i happier?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a lot of things which i can&#8217;t quite put my finger on it seems&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there are some things which i am sure of though.  for example, my stress level is down and my hope for the future is up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in a couple weeks a will be coming to visit.  i am really, really looking forward to that.  i feel like it will kind of determine what happens and what is prioritized for the rest of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>should i consider my recent lack of motivation to write a good thing, or a bad thing? i&#8217;m not sure. on one hand, typically i write when i feel like my head or heart might explode. it&#8217;s a pressure relief system. its an outlet which lets me express how i am feeling so it doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">i&#8217;m (not) sure<\/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":[7,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sad","category-happy","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}