{"id":462,"date":"2003-11-17T01:04:40","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T09:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2003-11-17T01:04:40","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T09:04:40","slug":"reflections-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"reflections about nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s been a year since i took broke away from the corporate system completely and life has come full circle. i find myself in a state of intimate turmoil, fiscal weakness and mental overload. the repetitive days seem deceptively simple enough. wake up. focus for 10 hours. loss focus for 3 hours. wash. document. sleep. it&#8217;s in a nutshell kinda of living. some days i rejoice in the simplicity of it all and other days, i wonder how long i can put up with this passive agressive intensity.<\/p>\n<p>funny enough, what i wrote down a year ago came true recently. it was a simple enough adjective but it was enough to put something of that calibur. interestly enough. i rarely accept anything as just good enough but amazingly i still find the ablility to let that go. acceptng the imperfection of acceptance.<br \/>\nsilly awards constructed for silly persues of so call excellence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\ni had a nice dream a couple of nights ago. in the dream i meet the living manifestation of compassion. he gave me something that made me very happy and excitable. i felt the excitement the in the same way one can have wet dreams. nothing so over the top as so much but it feel an experience in my body. i woke up knew that the time had come again to reconnect with my past and future.<\/p>\n<p>father calls and tells me to stay away from crowded places because he&#8217;s been reading in the ny times about the successful terrorist hits. he has called a number of times over the ears telling me to make nice friends and get marry to a vietnamese or a chinese girl. he thinks i&#8217;ve just graduate 5th grade and i haven&#8217;t probably figure these things out yet. it&#8217;s like when i talk to my grandma twice a year and she tells me to eat good food and make a lot of money. the advise just get simple as the equations get more complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s been a year since i took broke away from the corporate system completely and life has come full circle. i find myself in a state of intimate turmoil, fiscal weakness and mental overload. the repetitive days seem deceptively simple enough. wake up. focus for 10 hours. loss focus for 3 hours. wash. document. sleep. it&#8217;s in a nutshell kinda of living. some days i rejoice in the simplicity of it all and other days, i wonder how long i can put up with this passive agressive intensity. funny enough, what i wrote down a year ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-7s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}