{"id":11482,"date":"2007-08-16T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/16\/to-maintain-comfort"},"modified":"2007-08-16T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:02:00","slug":"to-maintain-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2007\/08\/16\/to-maintain-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"To Maintain Comfort."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing to me how easily we can live in our heads. If I don&#8217;t like what you&#8217;re saying, I retreat to my own thoughts. You can&#8217;t change those. You can&#8217;t touch those. We can live in this state of, &#8220;you think you know me&#8230; but you don&#8217;t.&#8221; We can live in this, &#8220;I can reason through it. I can fix it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been thinking about old friends as I clear through more of the clutter that easily classifies me as a &#8220;junk keeper&#8221;. I&#8217;ve just been thinking about some of the conversations we had. And been wondering about where some of them are in their lives right now. Who are their friend&#8217;s now? What are their new hobbies?<\/p>\n<p>But the real fascination I have as I flip through old chapters of my life is, when the lights go down at the end of the day and it&#8217;s just them and their thoughts, who are they? I&#8217;m just curious. Are they who they want to be? Am I who I want to be?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so easy to stay in the comfortable. It&#8217;s so easy to remain outside of conflict, outside of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">stressors<\/span>, outside of life. It&#8217;s so easy to sit behind a computer or a palm pilot and become just another fish in the sea. I&#8217;m not trying to imply that being on the computer or on the web or having the finances to be able to afford a palm pilot makes anyone a bad person. I&#8217;m just saying that face to face contact and actually going through the daily work of keeping a friendship or a relationship healthy is hard enough for anyone to desire to run away. But it&#8217;s in those moments of retreat that I wonder who my previous friends have become? Whom have I become?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I was just thinking today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing to me how easily we can live in our heads. If I don&#8217;t like what you&#8217;re saying, I retreat to my own thoughts. You can&#8217;t change those. You can&#8217;t touch those. We can live in this state of, &#8220;you think you know me&#8230; but you don&#8217;t.&#8221; We can live in this, &#8220;I can&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2007\/08\/16\/to-maintain-comfort\/#more-11482\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/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-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}