{"id":387,"date":"2003-11-20T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/11\/20\/its-okay\/"},"modified":"2003-11-20T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T15:57:55","slug":"its-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/its-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"It&rsquo;s okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie from <em>Climb to the Stars<\/em> has finally completed her studies (congrats!), and <a href=\"http:\/\/climbtothestars.org\/archive\/2003\/november\/#106926404050557184\">she writes<\/a> about the odd feeling of guilt that still follows her around. She says:<\/p>\n<p><em>It&rsquo;s a bit strange how I just can&rsquo;t seem to totally relax in my life right now. I keep feeling this underlying guilt I&rsquo;ve got used to living with all these last years: guilt about setting aside what I should be doing (my studies), instead of having fun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It took me years to get over that damn feeling after I finished my studies. I hated this nagging sense of &laquo; not doing the right thing &raquo; that kept me from truly relaxing and it is one of the reasons I have had no desire to ever go back to college and finish a PhD. 12 years after finishing my master&rsquo;s degree, I still feel a little pang in the heart once in a while when I sit down to watch tv at night or when I take an afternoon off. Aren&rsquo;t I wasting my time? Couldn&rsquo;t I be more productive? And when I realize that no, it&rsquo;s okay, I can take it easy, life is short and you die anyway, the feeling of gratefulness that overcomes me is as good as a bitter piece of dark chocolate melting on my tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie from Climb to the Stars has finally completed her studies (congrats!), and she writes about the odd feeling of guilt that still follows her around. She says: It&rsquo;s a bit strange how I just can&rsquo;t seem to totally relax in my life right now. I keep feeling this underlying guilt I&rsquo;ve got used to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/its-okay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&rsquo;s okay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}