{"id":2083,"date":"2010-10-25T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/2010\/10\/pain-vs-happiness\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T10:09:00","slug":"pain-vs-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/2010\/10\/25\/pain-vs-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain Vs Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/font>I’m not sure which I prefer.<\/p>\n

This is not a call to self-harm or to wallow in self-pity.<\/p>\n

By Pain I mean the logical emotional reaction to violently disturbing things.  Emotional, as opposed to physical.<\/p>\n

Physical pain is a warning sign.<\/p>\n

Mental pain is an imprint, a scar, a lesson.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember most of the times I was elated, exhilarated.<\/p>\n

I remember when I was tormented.<\/p>\n

I can’t say I treasure those memories in a traditional sense.<\/p>\n

But they usually remind me of the loss of something I loved, in myself or outside myself.<\/p>\n

And thereby they act as living testaments to things that brought me happiness.<\/p>\n

And if you can’t remember why you were happy, and why it hurts so much that you’re not anymore…<\/p>\n

Were you ever truly happy?<\/p>\n

-Puppy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure which I prefer. This is not a call to self-harm or to wallow in self-pity. By Pain I mean the logical emotional reaction to violently disturbing things.  Emotional, as opposed to physical. Physical pain is a warning sign. Mental pain is an imprint, a scar, a lesson. I don’t remember most of … Continue reading “Pain Vs Happiness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puppy.dapuppy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}