{"id":164054,"date":"2020-06-28T18:57:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=164054"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:57:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T17:57:34","slug":"when-life-makes-no-sense-and-the-world-seems-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/06\/28\/when-life-makes-no-sense-and-the-world-seems-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"When life makes no sense and the world seems alien"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What times we find ourselves in.  Everything in a state of flux. I am flipping between a state of optimism and deep sadness. Sadness that there is so much anger at the wrong people. Sadness that so many feel threatened by people that are often very fragile and living marginal lives who would not do them any harm.<\/p>\n

Optimism because I think that things can change for the better, though I dont know how yet. <\/p>\n

I have to be quite careful what I watch or read as a lot stuff triggers me. To be fair though so does everything.<\/p>\n

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What times we find ourselves in.  Everything in a state of flux. I am flipping between a state of optimism and deep sadness. Sadness that there is so much anger at the wrong people. Sadness that so many feel threatened by people that are often very fragile and living marginal lives who would not do … Continue reading When life makes no sense and the world seems alien<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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-164054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-GG2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":150486,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/10\/22\/went-the-day-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":164054,"position":0},"title":"Went the day well?","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Well the day started with the toaster shorting out, but a bit of jiggery pokery and that is now fixed. 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