{"id":9355,"date":"2006-03-18T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/18\/sigh-2\/"},"modified":"2022-04-10T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:30:07","slug":"sigh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/18\/sigh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"forgive yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to blog again but I just left it here and didn&#8217;t do anything.<\/p>\n<p>I guess once you stop something it takes some time to get it going back- and if when you realise that the quality has dropped because of rust, you&#8217;ll feel worse about yourself and not want to do it anymore because you&#8217;re upset that you&#8217;re not as good as you once were.<\/p>\n<p>Do you guys ever get that feeling?<\/p>\n<p>I seem to have it everywhere. Studies, whereby I loved dominating in early primary school but can&#8217;t give a fuck now that I actually fail tests. Fitness, where I stopped halfway and got to such a weak physical condition I couldn&#8217;t even bench anything more than the bar- and I looked fitter two years ago. That was seriously demoralizing as well. Then the blog, when diary-x died I couldn&#8217;t quite care anymore and now my entries are weaker.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess what I need to realise is that I have to learn to forgive myself and rediscover why I do things. I worked out because I wanted to look good- but what kept me at it was that I enjoyed the adrenaline rush. I studied- well I actually didn&#8217;t study. I&#8217;ll have to think about that. I enjoyed academics (ah, there we go) because I enjoy being able to tear any maths problem in the book apart, I enjoyed understanding everything. Knowledge is power- and power is a heady substance.<\/p>\n<p>Although think about it, knowledge no longer really puts you ahead of anyone else. It&#8217;s knowing how to efficiently procure that knowledge at your profit. It&#8217;s not how many degrees you have but how many degrees you have working for you. Knowledge is free and easy. Experience and skill isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway that&#8217;s another issue altogether. I&#8217;ve actually filled up the white box now. I gave up when I looked at it earlier because I thought about where I wanted to go and decided it was going to be too difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot how much I actually loved to write for the sake of writing instead of getting readers, to work out for the enjoyable pumps and sense of control, academics for the self-fulfilment and to keep the brain running like a well oiled machine rather than to get marks to prove a point.<\/p>\n<p>As corny as it sounds I think I&#8217;m starting to truly understand what they mean by the journey overrides the destination.<\/p>\n<p>I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to blog again but I just left it here and didn&#8217;t do anything. 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