{"id":3383,"date":"2015-04-03T23:56:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2015-04-03T23:56:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T03:56:54","slug":"live-a-life-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"Live a life all over again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/betjerjas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3384\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/betjerjas.jpg\" alt=\"betjerjas\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/betjerjas.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/betjerjas-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maryed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3385\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maryed.jpg\" alt=\"maryed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maryed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maryed-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are certain people who seem to really have figured out this living life thing.\u00a0 They appear to be completely at ease in their own skin, and are happy to be where ever it is they happen to be.\u00a0 Undoubtedly, those few have learned to dance in the rain.\u00a0 I can only think they must have been friends with the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche.<\/p>\n<p>They must have been hanging out together, in the break room at work, eating tuna salad sandwiches and Fritos, when Friedrich would say things like this\u2026..\u00a0 Just like this.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWhat if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, \u2018This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!\u2019 Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, \u2018Never have I heard anything more divine\u2019?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then\u2026 maybe later that night, they hooked up with F. Scott Fitzgerald, and went out for Bowling and Hot Wings.\u00a0 And after rolling a strike or two.. F. Scott would sit back down on the ball return and say\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cFor what it\u2019s worth: it\u2019s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you\u2019re proud of, and if you find that you\u2019re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how it must have happened.\u00a0 At least, that is what I am saying tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain people who seem to really have figured out this living life thing.\u00a0 They appear to be completely at ease in their own skin, and are happy to be where ever it is they happen to be.\u00a0 Undoubtedly, those few have learned to dance in the rain.\u00a0 I can only think they must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}