{"id":9496,"date":"2007-12-12T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/12\/why\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T03:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:54:00","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/12\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>why is it that every time you think you&#8217;re starting to become a better person, that you&#8217;re going somewhere, something makes you realised that you&#8217;re back where you started, or possibly even worse?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frustrating, upsetting, and hard to stomach.<\/p>\n<p>another issue that&#8217;s been interesting me of late is about the compromise between personal identity and that of a collective. what&#8217;s right? what&#8217;s wrong? <\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s scary when you can&#8217;t tell, because what&#8217;s right for a few of you might work for you guys within the context of your group, but be wrong altogether in the rest of society.<\/p>\n<p>Do we care about absolute truth? i&#8217;m pretty certain we&#8217;d never reach that in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose at the end of the day, even with your closest friends, you got to watch what you say. because there&#8217;s really no such thing as &#8220;among us, anything goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think I just realised my most fundamental mistake. and I think I better not talk about it. If fixing it fixes everything, you will notice.<\/p>\n<p>But DAMN that makes life difficult! I suppose anonymous is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>More about this when i&#8217;m more awake.<\/p>\n<p><i>confused and worried because what you hear alone is different from what you hear among the others<br \/>\nall we need is to close the first ear and the second will be at peace.<br \/>\nso brutal honesty, while it feels good- is pretty damn useless.<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t forget this.<\/p>\n<p>and knowing you, someday you&#8217;ll come back and contradict yourself again.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why is it that every time you think you&#8217;re starting to become a better person, that you&#8217;re going somewhere, something makes you realised that you&#8217;re back where you started, or possibly even worse? It&#8217;s frustrating, upsetting, and hard to stomach. another issue that&#8217;s been interesting me of late is about&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-why","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}