{"id":5071,"date":"2014-06-26T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:43:25","slug":"update-picking-a-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/update-picking-a-path\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Picking a Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am happy to report that I no longer feel &#8220;stagnant&#8221; in life as I did when I originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/picking-a-path\/\">&#8220;Picking a Path&#8221;<\/a> nearly 5 months ago to the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/251091_1740265035976_293105_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5072\" alt=\"251091_1740265035976_293105_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/251091_1740265035976_293105_n-e1403803812657.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/251091_1740265035976_293105_n-e1403803812657.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/251091_1740265035976_293105_n-e1403803812657-123x250.jpg 123w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/251091_1740265035976_293105_n-e1403803812657-148x300.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>My life now feels like a merry-go-round that I can&#8217;t get off of. \u00a0Constantly circling, taking me the same way and the same places I don&#8217;t want to go. \u00a0I try to accept what I can&#8217;t change and be positive and do my best in life but then I get handed more sh* and the cycle starts again. \u00a0I dream about just jumping off but I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s too risky. \u00a0Yes, I&#8217;d get off the goddamned merry-go-round but what if the consequence of jumping is worse than the sh* I&#8217;ve got? \u00a0But really, how can you compare apples to oranges?<\/p>\n<p>The grass is always greener, right? \u00a0Except when it&#8217;s not and you can&#8217;t know for sure until you get there. And what if there is no grass at all? \u00a0Where does that leave you?<\/p>\n<p>So you ride the merry-go-round, desperately seeking the grass, wondering every time you come around if you&#8217;ll finally see a soft place to land. \u00a0How long do you ride, wait and hope?<\/p>\n<p>And really, how much can you give of yourself before you lose yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am happy to report that I no longer feel &#8220;stagnant&#8221; in life as I did when I originally published &#8220;Picking a Path&#8221; nearly 5 months ago to the day. My life now feels like a merry-go-round that I can&#8217;t get off of. \u00a0Constantly circling, taking me the same way and the same places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-mommy-time","category-work-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}