{"id":6331,"date":"2023-08-30T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2023-08-27T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T23:32:41","slug":"gravity-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2023\/08\/gravity-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"gravity walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>When I was pregnant, it was hard to move fast or raise my feet up as I walked down the hallways at work. My body was hard at work making a new person. It felt like gravity was a lot stronger around me.<br><br>Now I am feeling gravity more as I fight through this medically administered poison called chemotherapy. My body is very busy coping with all its processes.<br><br>Very few of these are what I want to think about. I\u2019m struggling through this dense gravity to find my focus and keep my attention where I want it to go.<br><br>The world is still going, and I have stuff I want to keep up with. I\u2019ve got a job, a family and every stuff I want to complete. I have to put some effort into keeping my attention where I want it to go.<br><br>IT\u2019s easy when I am tired and not feeling well to do the stupid things. The easy distraction: food, silly internet games or videos.<br><br>And If I am willing to spend this life on small insignificant things, I will get insignificant rewards<br><br>I am not satisfied with insignificance. <br><br>So, I have to use the times when I can focus to come up with a plan and set of steps I can take when I gravity is dragging me.<br><br>Yes, I\u2019m less capable than I\u2019ve been. But I\u2019m still capable.<br><br>I\u2019ve got two more months of chemo. I don\u2019t want to lose that time. My old friend the to do list can help.<br><br>It\u2019s not so demanding this time. Not a HAVE to do list, but more of an aspirational TRY to do list.<br><br>With tiny steps. 15 minutes on each thing is a decent goal.  I\u2019ll have to let that be enough.<br><br>I\u2019m still under here, beneath the gravity. Inching forward like a worm on the surface of my big ideals.<br><br>It\u2019s the movement that counts. It can be enough.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was pregnant, it was hard to move fast or raise my feet up as I walked down the hallways at work. My body was hard at work making a new person. It felt like gravity was a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2023\/08\/gravity-walk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}