{"id":1150,"date":"2008-08-01T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T08:05:51","slug":"its-only-with-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s only with yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The call came in early in the afternoon. It had barely taken us five hours to move all the money and now the apartment was ours. It&#8217;s been such a stressful summer so far, I just took it as a fact that it had worked out and didn&#8217;t think too much anymore. Right now I feel like being at a point where I kind of move from one point to another, without looking back but without looking forward either. I remember a good conversation with Franz once &#8211; it was about making mistakes and he told me &#8220;It all comes down to this: once you start being afraid of actually making them, they will inevitably strike.&#8221;  Now I don&#8217;t think I am afraid anymore, I might just worry too much every now and then. I strive for some things: Being a good journalist, lead a department at some point. Why would I, why should I aim low? I do understand some things need their time, and being patient is not one of my particular strengths but I do not see why I should constantly excuse myself for trying to change things, for being different? I remember something I was told a long time ago: Only people who never move can&#8217;t take the wrong path. <\/p>\n<p>The race is long and in the end, it&#8217;s only with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call came in early in the afternoon. It had barely taken us five hours to move all the money and now the apartment was ours. It&#8217;s been such a stressful summer so far, I just took it as a fact that it had worked out and didn&#8217;t think too much anymore. Right now I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}