{"id":2892,"date":"2009-11-07T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T00:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2009-11-07T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T00:10:54","slug":"im-a-glutton-for-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/11\/07\/im-a-glutton-for-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Glutton for Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/graphistolage\/2230513387\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2893\" title=\"slowly and alone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/parisglutton.jpg\" alt=\"slowly and alone\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/parisglutton.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/parisglutton-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m in Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain for the next week<\/strong>, capitalizing on the business trip (aka enjoying the free hotel) my husband has been sent on. I&#8217;ve brought my computer, and before I left, I told myself I would work&#8230; because <strong>I feel guilty<\/strong>. Guilty for spending money I don&#8217;t have, guilty for the time away from my clients and business and guilty for taking a trip I feel I don&#8217;t deserve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite the self-inflicted guilt, I could not help but seize the opportunity for adventure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tonight though, the guilt is heavy, clouding my thoughts and inhibiting my enjoyment. I&#8217;m staring at the screen right now, in our rented apartment in Paris, wondering why I have nothing intelligent to say about guilt. I feel like an ass writing of my guilty thoughts while experiencing a city many only dream of visiting. Whoops, isn&#8217;t that more self-inflicted guilt? I am certainly on fire tonight.<\/p>\n<p>To add fuel to the fire, this article really has no point. I&#8217;m bringing nothing new to the subject. The best point I&#8217;ve got is: <strong>despite the guilt I feel about being here, it&#8217;s a lot better than the regret I&#8217;d feel at missing this opportunity<\/strong>. I prefer &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t do it&#8221; to &#8220;I could have done it&#8221;. And I likely always will. For I am, without a doubt, a glutton for experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"photo by graphistolage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/graphistolage\/2230513387\/\">graphistolage<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/graphistolage\/2230513387\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2893\" title=\"slowly and alone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/parisglutton.jpg\" alt=\"slowly and alone\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/parisglutton.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/parisglutton-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tweetmeme] <\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m in Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain for the next week<\/strong>, capitalizing on the business trip (aka enjoying the free hotel) my husband has been sent on. I&#8217;ve brought my computer, and before I left, I told myself I would work&#8230; because <strong>I feel guilty<\/strong>. Guilty for spending money I don&#8217;t have, guilty for the time away from my clients and business and guilty for taking a trip I feel I don&#8217;t deserve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite the self-inflicted guilt, I could not help but seize the opportunity for adventure.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}