{"id":183,"date":"2009-10-21T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angband.dyndns.org\/blogs\/m0rg0th\/?p=183"},"modified":"2009-10-21T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:09:44","slug":"octobernonfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"October(non)fest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems in the next few days I pass two anniversaries. A year ago today I broke up with my last partner. In four more days I have been working for my current employer for one year. I&#8217;m not really sure what either of these anniversaries really mean, but it&#8217;s interesting that I noticed them only a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more interesting I guess is what I&#8217;ve managed to gain in the last year by way of achieving a better harmony with the Cosmos. I&#8217;d say I&#8217;m in a much better space now than I was a year ago. The 12 months prior to a year ago had been emotionally hard. The relationship I was in was obviously dead for both of us, we were just unwilling to take the final (and always difficult) step: that of acknowledging that as a relationship, things were over, and there were no more ways to &#8220;fix&#8221; things. Thanks to my ex partner&#8217;s quick temper, black &#038; white attitude and a frank discussion we could both get on with the moving on! That done, the real recovery could start.<\/p>\n<p>Now thanks to that tough discussion, I&#8217;m more comfortable now than I&#8217;ve ever been with my self and my position in the Cosmos is something I could never have imagined 12 months ago. Other relationships has passed out of my life too, the Piper must be paid&#8230;I do mourn Sammy moving out of my &#8220;reach&#8221;, but interestingly in practical terms I&#8217;m none the worse for wear for the loss of any of these losses. I do mourn a more distant Sammy though.<\/p>\n<p>Short of Sammy though, amusement would be my most frequent response when reflecting on the casualties of the past &#8220;war&#8221;. The Cosmos has filled such voids with new people, or different weightings.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that the new job I was about to start at the time has been a tremendous point of stability from which I could bounce off to a new stage in my life. It&#8217;s been the right job in the right place at the right time. It allowed me to make other decisions that I&#8217;d not seen coming, and there&#8217;s no doubt buying a house has been a complete turn about from my previous position on such things. Don&#8217;t mistake some minor turnabouts on material perceptions for a complete metaphysical and philosophical about face though. My fundamental philosophies are unchanged. In fact they&#8217;ve supported me through one of the most challenging years of my life to this point. In fact this has been the toughest year since I first got clean 19 years ago. Actually that anniversary was less than a fortnight ago: this has really been the month for such things&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>To the Cosmos and all those who&#8217;ve helped me over the last 12 months I am most grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems in the next few days I pass two anniversaries. A year ago today I broke up with my last partner. In four more days I have been working for my current employer for one year. I&#8217;m not really sure what either of these anniversaries really mean, but it&#8217;s interesting that I noticed them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,10,4,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-health","category-house","category-humour","category-philosophy","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}