{"id":176536,"date":"2024-01-30T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176536"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:44:16","slug":"can-you-really-change-the-path-your-life-will-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/30\/can-you-really-change-the-path-your-life-will-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Really Change The Path Your Life Will take?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can You Really Change The Path Your Life will take or is it all preordained? Its something I have been thinking about a lot latterly. It often feels to me that many outcomes are a little to predictable at times as if one had a form clavoyance. Sometimes I don&#8217;t always seem to be able to keep a rational measured view on things. At times I have felt as there some strange force guiding me  but also shutting certain doors and opening others. perhaps really it is just my subconscious, but it can feel like  an external force almost.  At my lowest ebb I have felt there is some malign force trying to knock me back when I get too cocky.  Perhaps we simply have a need  to apportion blame to avoid taking responsibility for our own destiny or rather the outcome of our decisions&#8217;.   I have run in to an odd problem with a project that may well be simply due to me making a couple of mistakes due to a lack of concentration which hopefully I may now have fixed and whilst I know logically it&#8217;s just a mistake again my mind wants to interpret it as some sort of malign elemental force standing between me and victory.  <br>I suspect it&#8217;s not though.  My body clock is out of kilter so sleep is not so good at present as I am dreaming a lot and waking up tired too. <br><br>Currently I am having a weird problem with a release through soundclouds distro system  where it keeps telling  me that the audio language is incorrect. I have checked everything about 4 times now. There was an error which I have corrected but it seems not to have made any difference. If they don&#8217;t sort it out soon I will have to use a different platform I think. It&#8217;s odd as I have never had problems with them before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I have a problem I tend to get stuck and totally obsessed with it, it s a real nuisance at times for me. I feel it stems from a lack of control in my earlier life as a child when I was bullied and there was also a lot of gaslighting. Eventually I ended up with a belief system that if something went wrong it was always due to malicious intent or somebody trying to stop me from doing something.  Sometimes it may have been but as time went by then usually it was not. Unfortunately my subconscious has never quite recovered from those fixed ideations.  So one little upset when I am feeling fragile sets me off again.   The worst part is that I really struggle to shift the focus of my attentions elsewhere. <br>  <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1419570142&#038;color=%23e49864&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/sets\/diana-stones-latest\" title=\"Diana Stones latest\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones latest<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can You Really Change The Path Your Life will take or is it all preordained? Its something I have been thinking about a lot latterly. It often feels to me that many outcomes are a little to predictable at times as if one had a form clavoyance. Sometimes I don&#8217;t always seem to be able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/30\/can-you-really-change-the-path-your-life-will-take\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can You Really Change The Path Your Life Will take?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175737,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,10,60,4,3,17,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-piano-works","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-183124.jpg?fit=1438%2C965&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JVm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153998,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/25\/christmas-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":176536,"position":0},"title":"Christmas 2019","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This year is drawing to a close. Its been hard work but we are still here.\u00a0The last 6 months of the year has been mostly bad news in one way or another.\u00a0Much has come to light that is deeply disturbing in so many ways.\u00a0 The illusion that the UK is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":101700,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/12\/16\/light-or-darkness-good-or-evil-whos-winning\/","url_meta":{"origin":176536,"position":1},"title":"Light or Darkness Good or Evil who&#8217;s winning?","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Does evil exist as a malevolent force or is it simply the work of human beings with no need to invoke deities or demons or other supernatural forces. For me personally the jurys still out, though much of what might be ascribed to evil is simply the work of individuals\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4205,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/06\/16\/winners-and-losers-dice-and-logic-and-dont-forget\/","url_meta":{"origin":176536,"position":2},"title":"Winners and Losers, dice and logic and don&#8217;t forget &#8230;.","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Define success, what is it really? Much of what we desire materially we don't really need though it might well make us feel better, though often not for very long and then we \"need\" some new thing.\u00a0 I expect that most of us by the time we reach middle age,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175917,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/07\/20\/a-small-disturbance-in-the-force\/","url_meta":{"origin":176536,"position":3},"title":"A Small Disturbance In the Force","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I am feeling a few wobbles this week. Its funny how one can feel confidant on Monday and a quivering wreck by Wednesday. I always have ongoing music writing and recording projects. So even on the worst days I do something. I practice\/play more or less every day. I am\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175002,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/06\/24\/lyrics-that-escape-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":176536,"position":4},"title":"Lyrics That Escape Us","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Sneaky things words, they tend to escape and evade me. Going back a few years I could always write a reasonable lyric but my minds a blank now it seems.\u00a0 Sometimes I wake up with an idea and its gone before I have a chance to write it down.\u00a0 Brain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":179085,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/30\/word-are-sometimes-just-words\/","url_meta":{"origin":176536,"position":5},"title":"Word are sometimes just words","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Word are sometimes just words. I do not comment on the moral issue of what is reasonable force and what is 'Defence' and where it becomes 'Offence'. How all this will look 25 years from now who knows. I won't be around to find out. It is still the case\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Invisible-beer.png?fit=1200%2C547&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Invisible-beer.png?fit=1200%2C547&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Invisible-beer.png?fit=1200%2C547&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Invisible-beer.png?fit=1200%2C547&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Invisible-beer.png?fit=1200%2C547&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176536"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176545,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176536\/revisions\/176545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}