{"id":14492,"date":"2022-02-09T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=14492"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:56:17","slug":"where-am-i-going-i-have-no-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2022\/02\/09\/where-am-i-going-i-have-no-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"where am i going? i have no clue!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>sometimes i find comfort in the fact that i don&#8217;t have a plan. sometimes i am thankful that i am okay with not knowing where my life is headed but getting too comfortable in that mindset is what can lead to never progressing.<\/p>\n<p>i spent so many years&nbsp;<em>too&nbsp;<\/em>focused on the future to the point that i could no longer relish in the present. but now, sometimes i feel as if i am not focused enough on where i am headed in the future. i know that i want to have a career in english or writing somehow&#8230; but where does a person even start to know what they want? how do i know if i&#8217;ll want a job in an office or out in the world if i have never done it?<\/p>\n<p>finding a balance between overly worrying about the future and pretending it doesn&#8217;t exist is something that continues to kick my butt every day.&nbsp; on one hand, worrying about the future is a good thing, but on the other, damaging your mindset to make the future come quicker does no good. the same thing applies to&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>thinking about the future is a line that is hard to walk without slipping too much to one side.<\/p>\n<p>i really don&#8217;t even know why i wrote this blog. maybe the purpose of it is just to proclaim the fact that i don&#8217;t know where i&#8217;m going. but then again, who really does?<\/p>\n<p>anyways, until next week,<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; A<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes i find comfort in the fact that i don&#8217;t have a plan. sometimes i am thankful that i am okay with not knowing where my life is headed but getting too comfortable in that mindset is what can lead to never progressing. i spent so many years&nbsp;too&nbsp;focused on the future to the point that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2022\/02\/09\/where-am-i-going-i-have-no-clue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;where am i going? i have no clue!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14537,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions\/14537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}