{"id":2275,"date":"2003-12-20T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2003\/12\/20\/budged-promise\/"},"modified":"2003-12-20T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T16:00:15","slug":"budged-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2003\/12\/20\/budged-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Budged Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hell, I&#8217;ve been thinking all night I&#8217;m going to start it this way all night, and now I set down to write it, and I want to change the beginning.  So here we go.  Movies, TV Shows, and theatre that have made me cry:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>ER &#8211; The episode where Carrie left Chicago, and Mark was to scared to say that he loved her, and did just as she was leaving <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Titanic (only the first viewing) <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Wit &#8211; At the Human Race, I lost my grandmother later that year to cancer. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Avenue Q &#8211; The song, &#8220;For Now&#8221;.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been scattered through time but the last one occurred last night, on my drive to work.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why it hit me at that moment.  I&#8217;ve heard the song before, whereas all the other times I cried on my first viewing.<\/p>\n<p>There could be many interpretations of the song &#8220;For Now&#8221; but the message I get is, life moves on and sucks at times.  Realize and deal with the now and look toward the future.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a vision of where I want to be going.  None whatsoever.  <\/p>\n<p>Somedays I wish I could&#8217;ve been like my dental hygienist, and just have known I always wanted to be a dental hygienist, life would&#8217;ve been so simple.  <\/p>\n<p>One of my friends from elementary school is now an investment banker on Wall Street, my mom got a letter from his mom.<\/p>\n<p>I get all these people telling me &#8220;you can&#8217;t stay here at relay you have too much promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to stay at relay, I just don&#8217;t know where to go.  I gotta do something, what I have no idea.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got all these ideas of things I could do.  I could go after the writing thing either full time or just on a part time basis.  I could go back to school and get a practical degree in counseling.  I could go work in non profits or an educational setting.  I could go to school get a degree in philosophy and pursue the writing thing.  I could do none of them and dedicate myself to producing excellently relayed telephone calls.  <\/p>\n<p>Theres this sign at the ITT Tech school that I drive past all the time.  A few weeks ago it said &#8220;Don&#8217;t expect a shove if you never budge.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve been getting shoved, and I have no idea of where to budge towards.  Or better yet, I&#8217;m dislodged, but I don&#8217;t know where to go now.  I&#8217;m free floating again.  I could go back and say I&#8217;m going to do something in theatre again.  <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hell, I&#8217;ve been thinking all night I&#8217;m going to start it this way all night, and now I set down to write it, and I want to change the beginning. So here we go. Movies, TV Shows, and theatre that have made me cry: ER &#8211; The episode where Carrie left Chicago, and Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}