{"id":146884,"date":"2019-06-05T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=146884"},"modified":"2019-06-05T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:04:47","slug":"life-is-a-game-not-a-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/05\/life-is-a-game-not-a-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is a Game, Not a Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A thought while at the gym today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask to be born, thus you technically \u00e2\u20ac\u0153owe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anything to anybody.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So perhaps we should think BEYOND \u00e2\u20ac\u0153duty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153original sin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a choice in being born, but now we have a choice how to live our lives (we have the faculty of free will, and we have the power to live our lives however we desire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It seems the best thing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come up with so far is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to treat life as a miserable self-flagellation or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153self-sacrifice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d type of duty. Instead, to treat life like a fun game!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A thought while at the gym today: You didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask to be born, thus you technically \u00e2\u20ac\u0153owe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anything to anybody. So perhaps we should think BEYOND \u00e2\u20ac\u0153duty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153original sin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agnus-dei-3-scaled.jpg?fit=2768%2C1664&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146885,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146884\/revisions\/146885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}