{"id":3808,"date":"2011-01-07T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2011-01-07T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:06:13","slug":"trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"Trying."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months isn&#8217;t really any easier than one month was. Find myself sad before I even realize the date. Maybe it never gets easier. Or better. Or less sad. Maybe you just get used to it. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I have proven to myself what I have always known. That I am not really the talk it out, share my feelings kind of girl. I will talk about stuff. And share. To some top-level degree. But never all of what I am feeling or thinking. Move on. Rub some dirt on it. Just say it&#8217;s all OK and push through. Eventually it will be. Close enough anyway.  But that quality is also what makes me who I am I suppose. I don&#8217;t wallow in stuff. I can&#8217;t allow it to shut me in. It might slowly kill a part of me inside, but I will get everything done that needs to be done and go on. I might finally break down and cry every once in awhile, but I will not let it stop me from doing what has to be done. Whatever &#8220;that&#8221; is at the time&#8230;work, life, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if that is &#8220;healthy&#8221; but the idea of &#8220;talking about my feelings&#8221; or &#8220;how I am feeling\/doing&#8221; makes me cringe. When people ask, I say fine. What else am I going to say? &#8220;Oh, last night I had a complete meltdown with no discernible trigger and cried my eyes out. How are you?&#8221; No one really wants to to hear bad or sad stuff anyway. Who wants that? I guess that&#8217;s why people pay a lot of money to therapists, they get paid. A lot. To listen to you babble on about your feelings. <\/p>\n<p>I was asked this week if I thought I was an angry or upset person. The question took me a bit my surprise and I was a somewhat insulted by it actually since I have never, ever considered myself that. Quite the opposite really. I&#8217;ve stayed pretty damn positive and upbeat though a lot of crap. IMO. (then again crazy people never think they are crazy&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Do I ever get angry or upset? Of course. But I usually just go rant about something and blow off the steam and it&#8217;s done. Isn&#8217;t that what you are supposed to do? People who say they never get angry or upset or argue or disagree (or refuse to get that way) are asking for a serial killer moment. Or just lying to themselves. So yes &#8211; I am still sad. I think I will be for a long time. I lost my little brother. The only family I was ever really super-duper close to. I think it&#8217;s my right to be sad.  <\/p>\n<p>But I guess that one question proves that people generally just don&#8217;t know me that well. C&#8217;est la vie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months isn&#8217;t really any easier than one month was. Find myself sad before I even realize the date. Maybe it never gets easier. Or better. Or less sad. Maybe you just get used to it. Awesome. I have proven to myself what I have always known. That I am not really the talk it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[782],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-jonathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}