{"id":1153,"date":"2008-09-28T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T09:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2008-09-28T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T09:39:39","slug":"move_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Move On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling down and demoralised of late, feelings primarily brought on by stuff that&#8217;s been going on at work. When you suddenly suck at something you thought you were pretty good at, your confidence sinks to a new low; you&#8217;re consumed with self-doubt and you can&#8217;t seem to think properly anymore.<br \/>\nIt was with these feelings that I wrote to a few close friends to pour my feelings out about how I felt about my life and where it&#8217;s going, or rather not going. A telephone call with monoceros ended up in a teary conversation after releasing the floodgates that have been building up over quite some time.<br \/>\nAnother dear friend, A, wrote back with consoling words and part of the lyrics of a song called <i>Move On<\/i> by Stephen Sondheim, apt for anyone feeling in a rut or is lost. I have no idea what the song sounds like, but its lyrics dance beautifully in my head with its words of encouragement.<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nStop worrying where you&#8217;re going,<br \/>\nMove on.<br \/>\nIf you can know where you&#8217;re going,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve probably gone.<br \/>\nJust keep moving on.<br \/>\nI chose, and my world was shaken.<br \/>\nSo what?<br \/>\nMy choice may have been mistaken,<br \/>\nThe choosing was not.<br \/>\nYou have to move on&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling down and demoralised of late, feelings primarily brought on by stuff that&#8217;s been going on at work. When you suddenly suck at something you thought you were pretty good at, your confidence sinks to a new low; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}