{"id":9226,"date":"2016-06-01T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2016-06-01T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:25:58","slug":"performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/performing\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Performing.png\" alt=\"Performing\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Performing.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Performing-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So good at the act that you forget what&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>So good at pretending that the unreal becomes real.<\/p>\n<p><em>What you feel is under your control.<\/p>\n<p>You can simply act it away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A mask of neutrality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Leads you to believe you might actually feel it.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>You can ignore your feelings.<\/p>\n<p>You can act forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet at some point, the inevitable curtain comes down, and the performance ends.<\/p>\n<p>You are left with you; and the feelings you&#8217;re pretending aren&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>If only for a moment. <\/p>\n<p>The act is over.<\/p>\n<p>What then? <\/p>\n<p>Who are you when your truth has space to be?<\/p>\n<p>The question, terrifying. <\/p>\n<p>Its answer even more so. <\/p>\n<p>It lies in love and the shape of it.<\/p>\n<p>What does your love and care look like when there is no performance to mask it?<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/poetatum\/3331666406\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ania<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So good at the act that you forget what&#8217;s true. So good at pretending that the unreal becomes real. What you feel is under your control. You can simply act it away. A mask of neutrality. Leads you to believe you might actually feel it. You can ignore your feelings. You can act forever. Yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9228,"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":[250,214,231,327,238,137,301,203,67,366,526],"class_list":["post-9226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind","tag-attachment","tag-awareness","tag-care","tag-emotion","tag-feelings","tag-love","tag-pretending","tag-pretense","tag-relationship","tag-truth","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226","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=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}