The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. – Henry David Thoreau<\/i><\/p>\n
It’s sad, isn’t it, how true it is? Lately, I feel like it’s becoming very true of my own life. I wake up every morning and think to myself, really? This is my life? How did I get here? What am I doing? Where am I going? <\/p>\n
Not to say, my life isn’t blessed in many ways. As someone reminded me the other day, I have a wonderful husband which on most days is<\/i> a salve for most of what pains me. I have amazingly supportive parents, family, extended family. I have known my best friends in the world for more years of my life than I have not known them. That is pretty incredible, isn’t it? While my job mostly leaves me unfulfilled, I do have<\/i> a job, which as I keep reminding myself, is also pretty incredible. My health could be better, but mostly it seems to be okay, which is definitely better than the alternative.<\/p>\n
And yet…the second part of the quote rings true as well.<\/p>\n
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.<\/i><\/p>\n
There are obviously things in my life that I am not happy about. Am I doing enough to change them? Maybe not. Maybe I’m just too comfortable, resigned to the idea that because of all I have, I should not continue to expect more. Sometimes I do feel that way, like when you’ve been blessed with so much, it’s ungrateful to feel like somehow, it’s just not enough<\/i>. <\/p>\n
I don’t know what I’m trying to say. Except…that I do feel resigned to a life of quiet desperation at this moment in time. Whatever that means.<\/p>\n
Does anyone have a cupcake? Preferrably chocolate. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. – Henry David Thoreau It’s sad, isn’t it, how true it is? Lately, I feel like it’s becoming very true of my own life. I wake up every morning and think to myself, really? This is my life? How did I get here? What am I […]<\/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-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}