{"id":100,"date":"2011-08-02T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2link.ca\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-08-02T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:29:42","slug":"self-destructive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/2011\/08\/02\/self-destructive\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-destructive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fear! Fear is one of the most powerful driving engines of human psyche. It conditions us as much as, for example, love&#8230; and sometimes even more. Fear of being abandoned, fear of being cheated, fear of being laid off. It can seem a primitive instinct and maybe it is but it doesn\u2019t seem to have anything primitive about it. In fact, the more intelligent and educated one is, the more fear one will feel \u2013 because one can envision much more ways of being hurt.<br \/>\nHurt?! Well, that is the big idea \u2013 that we fear only bad things. Not necessarily true \u2013 sometimes, when we get too close to something good, very good, extraordinarily good, we fall into the eternal <em>too good to be true<\/em> and we start digging, investigating, analyzing, just to find out what is wrong with that close-by success. If there is nothing we can find wrong, we make-up something just to certify that nothing can be that good. I had good things a couple of times within my reach and I managed to sabotage myself with this self-destructive attitude.<br \/>\nIt is as if \u2013 instead of being happy for a while but facing a probable misery, I am afraid of this happiness that will not last and I am ready to sacrifice it, so I don\u2019t grow wings, so I don\u2019t go close to the sun, so I don\u2019t find out later that the sun is just a light bulb and that I am not Icarus but a moth.<br \/>\nThere are places where the mind is of no use and where faith is all one needs. Faith is the only one that can keep the fear in check \u2013 not blind faith but a warm faith placed on the right to happiness we most probably have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear! Fear is one of the most powerful driving engines of human psyche. It conditions us as much as, for example, love&#8230; and sometimes even more. Fear of being abandoned, fear of being cheated, fear of being laid off. It can seem a primitive instinct and maybe it is but it doesn\u2019t seem to have<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/2011\/08\/02\/self-destructive\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2link.ca\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}