{"id":5956,"date":"2011-01-21T23:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2011-01-22T23:44:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T21:44:36","slug":"30-days-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/5956","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/30days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"30days\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/30days_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"30days\" width=\"595\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>A while back I saw a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avitable.com\/2010\/09\/22\/30-days-of-truth-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avitable&#8217;s blog<\/a> titled 30 Days of Truth.\u00a0 Apparently it is one of those blog memes that had been going around which I tend to avoid but I sort of like this one, it&#8217;s thought provoking and makes you think about yourself and your life. So I\u2019m going to give it a go, what the hell!<\/p>\n<p>Basically, there are a list of things you have to discuss and be totally honest about.\u00a0 Here is this list:<\/p>\n<p>Day 01 \u2192 Something you hate about yourself.<br \/>\nDay 02 \u2192 Something you love about yourself.<br \/>\nDay 03 \u2192 Something you have to forgive yourself for.<br \/>\nDay 04 \u2192 Something you have to forgive someone for.<br \/>\nDay 05 \u2192 Something you hope to do in your life.<br \/>\nDay 06 \u2192 Something you hope you never have to do.<br \/>\nDay 07 \u2192 Someone who has made your life worth living for.<br \/>\nDay 08 \u2192 Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit.<br \/>\nDay 09 \u2192 Someone you didn\u2019t want to let go, but just drifted.<br \/>\nDay 10 \u2192 Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn\u2019t know.<br \/>\nDay 11 \u2192 Something people seem to compliment you the most on.<br \/>\nDay 12 \u2192 Something you never get compliments on.<br \/>\nDay 13 \u2192 A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)<br \/>\nDay 14 \u2192 A hero that has let you down. (letter)<br \/>\nDay 15 \u2192 Something or someone you couldn\u2019t live without, because you\u2019ve tried living without it.<br \/>\nDay 16 \u2192 Someone or something you definitely could live without.<br \/>\nDay 17 \u2192 A book you\u2019ve read that changed your views on something.<br \/>\nDay 18 \u2192 Your views on gay marriage.<br \/>\nDay 19 \u2192 What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?<br \/>\nDay 20 \u2192 Your views on drugs and alcohol.<br \/>\nDay 21 \u2192 (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?<br \/>\nDay 22 \u2192 Something you wish you hadn\u2019t done in your life.<br \/>\nDay 23 \u2192 Something you wish you had done in your life.<br \/>\nDay 24 \u2192 Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)<br \/>\nDay 25 \u2192 The reason you believe you\u2019re still alive today.<br \/>\nDay 26 \u2192 Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?<br \/>\nDay 27 \u2192 What\u2019s the best thing going for you right now?<br \/>\nDay 28 \u2192 What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?<br \/>\nDay 29 \u2192 Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.<br \/>\nDay 30 \u2192 A letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself<\/p>\n<p>I think some of this is going to be difficult but it\u2019s one of those things that get you thinking, ya know?\u00a0 So here goes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Day1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Day1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Day1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Day1\" width=\"595\" height=\"89\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Eish, there are a few things I could put here but I think I\u2019ll go with my short fuse.\u00a0 This covers a few different areas\u2026 my quick temper, lack of patience and general attitude. If something is too difficult, I lose my shit and give up. If someone irritates me, I get my nose out of joint and ignore them. If something doesn\u2019t work properly or doesn\u2019t go the way I want it to, I throw my toys and have a complete hissy.\u00a0 I\u2019m fighty, and I don\u2019t want to be.\u00a0 I want to be all .. <em>make love not war, dudes!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to have more patience with things.\u00a0 I want to be that person that takes a deep breath and deals with things head on and in a mature and responsible manner, rather than being the \u201cFuck you, I\u2019m taking my ball and going home!\u201d type that I usually am now.\u00a0\u00a0 It <em>has <\/em>improved over the years, my temper is nothing like it used to be and I\u2019m learning to channel it when I can but this is going to be a lifelong thing, not something I\u2019ll be able to change overnight.\u00a0 I\u2019d be lying if I said I couldn\u2019t still be a complete shithead at times.<\/p>\n<p>I know it irritates the bejesus out of some people, especially my husband, who has to sit in the house and roll his eyes while I\u2019m in the kitchen screaming at the microwave for not doing whatever I wanted it to do in the way I wanted to do it\u2026 but it irritates me too.\u00a0 Probably even more than it irritates him!\u00a0 I know he\u2019d disagree\u2026but naturally he\u2019d probably be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I need to be hypnotized and convinced that I am the picture of serenity, that I am calm, cool and collected and nothing is able to fuck with my chi.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, that\u2019s it, I need me a good ol\u2019 fashioned brainwashing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I saw a post on Avitable&#8217;s blog titled 30 Days of Truth.  It&#8217;s thought provoking and makes you think about yourself and your life, so I&#8217;m going to give it a go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[553,218,415],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-randoms","tag-30-days-of-truth","tag-memes","tag-self-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5962,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions\/5962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}