{"id":5450,"date":"2019-02-25T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2019-02-25T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:08:37","slug":"little-life-update-a-realization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/02\/25\/little-life-update-a-realization\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Life Update: A Realization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Me again. I don&#8217;t feel that I put myself personally on this blog, so I thought, what the heck, why not?<\/p>\n<p>So, I had an intervention with a friend in which they told me that I read into things too deeply as if there is a hidden meaning in every little thing. I was shocked by this observation because after all, it is VERY true.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I do this because I in fact do this. I almost always leave little hidden meanings in the things that I say. I don&#8217;t think I exactly mean to, and I wouldn&#8217;t exactly call it being passive. I think I just think differently.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my friend if this is a bad thing. If hiding and looking for deeper meanings and hidden meanings in things is so bad. They then responded with something that completely changed my entire perspective of this: &#8220;Not everyone thinks the way that you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was taken back for a second because I guess I never really thought about this. Of course I didn&#8217;t think that everyone thought like me, but I also didn&#8217;t go around thinking that everyone thought completely different than me.<\/p>\n<p>They also said, &#8220;Some people see things as black and white. You say something, and you mean it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This all ultimately led me to realize that it is okay for me to hide deeper meanings into the things I say, but to not expect other people to reciprocate or understand it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Me again. I don&#8217;t feel that I put myself personally on this blog, so I thought, what the heck, why not? So, I had an intervention with a friend in which they told me that I read into things too deeply as if there is a hidden meaning in every little thing. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/02\/25\/little-life-update-a-realization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little Life Update: A Realization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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\/5450"}],"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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}