{"id":1137,"date":"2010-03-21T00:57:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T06:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2010-03-20T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T15:15:23","slug":"unintended-depressive-thoughts-in-the-aftermath-of-an-awesome-useful-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Unintended, depressive thoughts in the aftermath of an awesome, useful conversation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest. Everything has a very real possibility of exploding in my face. Everything is made of gunpowder. I&#8217;m risking igniting it.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the ceiling for hours, realizing I don&#8217;t have a plan if this fails. My life, for the longest time, has been leading up to trying to make this transition happen. If it fails, if I can&#8217;t pass, if nobody accepts me, what happens then? The correct answer is, I guess, that I continue on in some capacity. Somehow, I keep going. I survive.<\/p>\n<p>But that seems so unbearable. Things are already unfair. I shouldn&#8217;t feel like this, but I do. I shouldn&#8217;t have these problems. The idea that I can put it all on the line, and do literally every single thing in my power to fix this, and then still not succeed is&#8230; it would crush me completely. I don&#8217;t see anything after that point. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d keep going somehow, but I don&#8217;t know what that means. I don&#8217;t know what life is for me after that point. I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t let the worst-case scenario stop me, though. I know that if I don&#8217;t try to fix this, I will hate myself. I will always worry if I could have removed this cloud over my life, that ruins all the fucking awesome people and awesome things in it. I will never feel like I did the right thing. I need to proceed. And I will proceed. As I&#8217;ve said before, nothing is going to stop me now. I&#8217;m doing this.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a comfort, though. Is it what reality is. I don&#8217;t know. Maybe I have less of a read of the flow of things than I had hoped. Maybe I should expect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3XxjgQyQVxI\">doom and gloom<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know. I just want to be able to claim myself, and maybe that won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>But life goes on, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh&#8230; sorry&#8230; I haven&#8217;t been right all week. All depressed and shit. Don&#8217;t let me drag you down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest. Everything has a very real possibility of exploding in my face. Everything is made of gunpowder. I&#8217;m risking igniting it. I stared at the ceiling for hours, realizing I don&#8217;t have a plan if this fails. My life, for the longest time, has been leading up to trying to make this transition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}