{"id":1033,"date":"2020-04-11T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/withmywords.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2020-04-11T23:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:12:29","slug":"present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/present\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I look at myself in the mirror, and I am still the same.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about me seems to have changed.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my hairstyle, it is not as neat as it was before.<\/p>\n<p>I walk, stretch, and look outside my window.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is the same again.<\/p>\n<p>The sun is shining, the birds are chirping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The leaves and flowers are budding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The butterflies are floating leisurely, and the bees are buzzing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, despite the joyous symphony of spring; an invisible enemy lurks in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>This nemesis awaits, ready to pounce on us at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>My daily habits have changed.<\/p>\n<p>My carefree life lies at my feet blown to pieces by this silent, insidious foe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So how do I live now?<\/p>\n<p>A day at a time, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>How do I find joy?<\/p>\n<p>Make the most of each moment, I think.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For you see, I don&#8217;t know how to look far into the future.<\/p>\n<p>That great unknown paralyses me.<\/p>\n<p>I will bite all I can chew.<\/p>\n<p>For me, right now, I can only munch on &#8220;the present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, \u00a0hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second.<\/p>\n<p>That is all I know to do.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it is enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I look at myself in the mirror, and I am still the same. Nothing about me seems to have changed. Maybe my hairstyle, it is not as neat as it was before. I walk, stretch, and look outside my window. \u00a0 It is the same again. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/present\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PRESENT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}