{"id":2929,"date":"2018-08-26T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2018-08-26T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T03:23:09","slug":"a-year-older-and-wiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/26\/a-year-older-and-wiser\/","title":{"rendered":"A year older and wiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I recently celebrated my 33rd birthday. I traveled to my hometown and spent the day with my parents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I don\u2019t have much to crib\/complain about my life. I am living it moment by moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epictetus says: Life is a journey and we are like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">travelers<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>. Every moment has its own share.<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, with all my experiences I can say: Life is as we see it. \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I have realized that as we grow old, we get better with detecting bullshit. We \u00a0start becoming more logical and rational. The emotional type:1 brain takes a back seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I have realized from various life experiences and through reading philosophy that: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The meaningful life = (virtues + logic + reasoning + principle + living in present + healthy eating + physical and mental well being) &#8211; (vices + bias + ego + expectations) <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I will keep updating the above \u201cmeaningful life\u201d algorithm over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2930\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2254.jpg 600w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2254-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2254-195x260.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently celebrated my 33rd birthday. I traveled to my hometown and spent the day with my parents. I don\u2019t have much to crib\/complain about my life. I am living it moment by moment. Epictetus says: Life is a journey and we are like travelers. Every moment has its own share. At the same time, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/26\/a-year-older-and-wiser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A year older and wiser&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[312,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}