{"id":1350,"date":"2018-11-12T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2018-11-12T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:25:20","slug":"twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/12\/twelve\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"

What has been the biggest disappointment in your life that turned out to be a blessing in disguise?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been pondering this today, interrupted by an interaction with someone from the past.<\/p>\n

I was going to say the job that got me away from radio.\u00a0 I threw myself into it, and came away with bills that I’d be paying for years.<\/p>\n

What can I say?\u00a0 Perhaps a part of me is a bit obsessive.<\/p>\n

But I think writing about that does kind of fit the bill.\u00a0 I absolutely gave every ounce of energy I had to making that whole thing go.\u00a0 I wrote.\u00a0 I engineered.\u00a0 I traveled.\u00a0 I spent my own meager funds, and I ended up with a better job.<\/p>\n

In that better job, I did the same thing.<\/p>\n

Did either end up being a “blessing in disguise?”\u00a0 That’s tough to say, especially that better job.\u00a0 The first one gave me the opportunity to meet, and fall in love with, my wife.\u00a0 I have no idea where I’d be, or what I’d be doing had I not met her.<\/p>\n

As I plod through this, I get distracted by things like, “why do I seem to be consistently mistyping ‘I”d,” instead of ‘I’d’?”<\/p>\n

Maybe I should improve my retrospection.<\/p>\n

There’s lots of people with whom I should be resentful, but I can’t bring myself to be.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s the “blessing in disguise” — that I am able to forgive?\u00a0 My dad used often bring up the JFK quote, “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”<\/p>\n

I could spend a lot of time focusing on how I’ve been wronged, and who did it, but I haven’t the energy.<\/p>\n

I’m content with who I am.\u00a0 I may not be content with my lot in life, but I’m working on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What has been the biggest disappointment in your life that turned out to be a blessing in disguise? I’ve been pondering this today, interrupted by an interaction with someone from the past. I was going to say the job that got me away from radio.\u00a0 I threw myself into it, and came away with bills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}