{"id":6872,"date":"2023-04-08T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2023-04-08T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T10:45:30","slug":"know-thyself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/08\/know-thyself\/","title":{"rendered":"know thyself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who are we?<br>What do we want and don&#8217;t want?<br>Are we living our life or the one told us by our parent&#8217;s society or education system?<br>Are we just living our life for the heck of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a conversation with my grandparents, I heard him saying what else he could have done better for himself and his kids.<br>I asked why he felt so.<br>He answered that as he aged, he had more time for introspection.<br>He advised me to do whatever I like diligently and not care what others or society thinks.<br>It has stayed with me so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My sanity, the company of great friends avoiding assholes come top of the list.<br>It has resulted in losing a few relationships and business propositions as well.<br>I have no regrets.<br>I will die in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are we?What do we want and don&#8217;t want?Are we living our life or the one told us by our parent&#8217;s society or education system?Are we just living our life for the heck of it? During a conversation with my grandparents, I heard him saying what else he could have done better for himself and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/08\/know-thyself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;know thyself&#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":[1480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872"}],"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=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}