{"id":469,"date":"2004-03-01T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2012-05-08T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:55:57","slug":"life-is-shortlife-is-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/03\/life-is-shortlife-is-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Short..Life is Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Kisa has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeygal.blogspot.com\/2004_02_22_monkeygal_archive.html#107795731117323823\">this <\/a>to say about living life to the fullest. I definitely give her credit for living by this credo.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d also like to posit the idea that life is long. Yes, life is short, and grab the moments.<\/p>\n<p>But life is also very long, so don&#8217;t forget the long things too. Long friendships, even long love relationships (marriage?). Living for a long time in one home, one that you spend a long time making into a beautiful for yourself to live in.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, all the fleeting moments can add up to one long evening at home wishing for something else.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, live like it&#8217;s your last moment, and cherish each moment you are given.<br \/>\nBut many things that are worth doing take more than a moment to do. They take consistent effort. A &#8220;body of work&#8221; for an artist takes a lifetime to build up. It takes commitment and consistency to do a large project.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t embrace that life is long, you can overlook the big things that might be worth doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Kisa has this to say about living life to the fullest. I definitely give her credit for living by this credo. But I&#8217;d also like to posit the idea that life is long. Yes, life is short, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/03\/life-is-shortlife-is-long\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}