{"id":116,"date":"2007-04-04T17:34:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T23:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blue-monster.ath.cx\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-04-04T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T23:34:43","slug":"lost-for-words-with-one-last-breath-for-me-to-take-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Lost for words with one last breath for me to take from you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am lost. I had my first cigarette in 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I had a talk with my oldest love, my first love, the only person that I told that I loved without being untrue to myself.<\/p>\n<p>We talked of many things, of the past and of the future, and she said to me a very interesting thing. She said &#8220;You don&#8217;t look happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I believed her. I don&#8217;t think that I am happy. I don&#8217;t know what it takes to make me happy. I have fun, yes, but I don&#8217;t know what it takes to make me truly happy. In high school, a kid said to me &#8220;you have happiness, from time to time, but do you have joy?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t then and I don&#8217;t now.<\/p>\n<p>What makes me happy? What gives me joy?<\/p>\n<p>These are questions to which that I have no answer now. I will keep looking.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, our coach driver from the past day has given me inspiration indirectly. To one of our tourists, he said &#8220;be good.&#8221; In reply, our tourist said &#8220;I can&#8217;t make any promises.&#8221; Paul&#8217;s reply was simple and will work, for a week at least.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t be good, be good at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am lost. I had my first cigarette in 17 years. Today, I had a talk with my oldest love, my first love, the only person that I told that I loved without being untrue to myself. We talked of many things, of the past and of the future, and she said to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lost for words with one last breath for me to take from you.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}