{"id":280,"date":"2014-01-01T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T08:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=280"},"modified":"2014-01-01T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:20:34","slug":"masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2013 was the worst year that I can recall. If you can&#8217;t think of a reason why, then you obviously don&#8217;t know me at all. Go away.<\/p>\n<p>Every single aspect of my life went wrong, and I can hardly do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>The result of which is me going into depression. Thankfully, not as bad as some people that I know, but enough to make me really consider just disappearing. <\/p>\n<p>I know that there will always be problems and issues no matter where you are. Sometimes I just feel that regardless of what I swap for, I would get a better hand. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, I have culled down the list of &#8220;friends&#8221; I have on Facebook. I tell people it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m sick of the quantifying friendships thing. But I think that maybe I am eliminating people from my life.<\/p>\n<p>I am so sick and tired of putting up a front; of wearing a mask. People call me by things that they think I am and, stupid me, I actually try to live to those expectations. I am sick of being the guy people can rely on. I am sick of filling in the gaps that no one else does. I have lost track of who I am and the person I see in the mirror is not a pretty sight. I am not a rock that&#8217;s sturdy. I&#8217;m sinking sand right now.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, there&#8217;s nothing that I am in full control of in my life. I have no semblance of control at all.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have day dreams of what I would do given a choice of no repercussions. It makes me feel good. Though the sad fact of reality is that we live with repercussions.<\/p>\n<p>ML once said that they wouldn&#8217;t be surprised by what difficulties or problems I go through. The problem is that if I reveal some of my dark thoughts, it may not surprise but color their opinions and I may paint myself into a corner where I am really and completely alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 was the worst year that I can recall. If you can&#8217;t think of a reason why, then you obviously don&#8217;t know me at all. Go away. Every single aspect of my life went wrong, and I can hardly do anything about it. The result of which is me going into depression. Thankfully, not as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,2,39],"tags":[52],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140101-172115.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}