{"id":4096,"date":"2018-09-12T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:51:46","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/09\/12\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m not one to ever deeply open up about my feelings but I&#8217;m really not sure anymore. I tend to be more emotionally reserved, continuously trying to stay happy and keep my hopes up for my peers and my family but eventually it gets old, you know? It&#8217;s seriously getting tiring. These past few days, my emotional barrier seems to be breaking down and honestly, it&#8217;s not too bad, I guess. I&#8217;m a lot more blunt and honest with not only myself but other people. I&#8217;m not as afraid of social situations and advances like I used to be and I don&#8217;t take much to heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s just annoying and upsetting how now that I&#8217;m changing, I&#8217;m looking back and realizing how unhappy and generally upset I was with having to wear that mask and feeling obligated to control my emotions based on how others felt or wanted me to feel. I never really allowed myself to thoroughly go through the process of handling a problem. Where I come from, a lot of people don&#8217;t really handle it, they just put up with it. However, I&#8217;m sick of putting up with problems instead of actually fixing them like I generally should. A smile isn&#8217;t gonna fix anything. A smile isn&#8217;t gonna make anything go away. It&#8217;s just a coping mechanism for just putting up with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">It all just angers me, the way I used to deal with things. I was more of a pushover when I was younger. Then, in my middle school years, I was still a pushover but a very aggressive pushover. That just made people want to walk over me more lol. I&#8217;ve never been confrontational either which is also another reason why I dealt with what I did. I know I sound like I&#8217;m just being all mopey and drawn out but just looking back, it all upsets me overall and I wish I&#8217;d been like I am now. It&#8217;s just been on my mind all week, especially with the changes I&#8217;ve seen within myself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m overall happy with the new changes, though, whether anyone else agrees with it or not. It&#8217;s like a heavy weight has been lifted off of my shoulders and I&#8217;m a lot more calmer and connected with myself on things I would&#8217;ve flipped out about at least two weeks ago. It&#8217;s weird how you can change a lot in a short period of time but it feels so good and I hope I just stay like this. This is what I needed. &lt;3<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to ever deeply open up about my feelings but I&#8217;m really not sure anymore. I tend to be more emotionally reserved, continuously trying to stay happy and keep my hopes up for my peers and my family but eventually it gets old, you know? It&#8217;s seriously getting tiring. These past few days, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/09\/12\/faq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FAQ :)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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\/4096"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}