{"id":176752,"date":"2024-02-28T20:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176752"},"modified":"2024-02-28T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:38:24","slug":"what-are-you-running-from-or-towards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/02\/28\/what-are-you-running-from-or-towards\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Running From Or Towards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-beige-background-color has-background\">As time passes friends fall by the wayside so often I find. Sometimes it&#8217;s just because interests change and we naturally drift apart. Though at my age now it seems that a few just vanish back in to stardust and billion year old carbon in the ultimate cosmic recycling machine. We get old, we get tired and we just  wear out.  I oscillate between trying not to think about the inevitable and getting somewhat obsessed with it. It cannot however be avoided regardless of magic elixirs and potions, Yoga and Tai Chi and so in. And things wear out too. It&#8217;s often the case that people just don&#8217;t look after themselves. A frequently bad diet and it just not seeming worth the effort does for a lot of older single folk in the end it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\"><br><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1502936641&amp;color=%23bd6f3c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As time passes friends fall by the wayside so often I find. Sometimes it&#8217;s just because interests change and we naturally drift apart. Though at my age now it seems that a few just vanish back in to stardust and billion year old carbon in the ultimate cosmic recycling machine. We get old, we get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/02\/28\/what-are-you-running-from-or-towards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Are You Running From Or Towards<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176776,"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":[30,10,60,4,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies-diana_stones_songs","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2014-11-13-17.26-0178-Dianas-Visit.jpg?fit=1620%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JYQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178786,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/19\/hints-of-spring\/","url_meta":{"origin":176752,"position":0},"title":"Hints Of Spring","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes there are a few, it's sunny and its bright \u2600 Daffodils in abundance in many places and buds just showing on the trees too. 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