{"id":123042,"date":"2018-08-07T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123042"},"modified":"2018-08-07T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:31:26","slug":"the-joys-of-being-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123042","title":{"rendered":"The Joys Of Being Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Short writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When I first got clean, the catalyst beyond threat of discontinued financial support was certainty that I would finally be recognized for the meteoric talent that I was \u2013 that all of the reasons for which I thought I used substances would be reinterpreted and rightly understood as unappreciated genius and, once so affirmed, I would no longer indulge that self-destructive tendency born of being \u201cmisunderstood\u201d \u2013 no wait sorry \u2013 not just misunderstood like you are \u2013 distinctively misunderstood. Quitting drugs for me, however, has actually shown its primary benefit to be that I now get to participate in life just as other people do \u2013 like a person looking to what actually is instead of constant consumption with what is not, with how they\u2019ve been wronged, with how they are somehow simultaneously better and worse than ____, all at the same time.<\/p>\n

Even now, despite years of practiced right-sizing and spiritual dependence, there is a part of me that continues to sustain the myth that I am somehow so special as to be immune to the conditions that dog other people, despite a consistent undercurrent of fraudulence: that I can put in a little less effort, that I am somehow shrouded in a halo sufficient to enchant those so blessed to gaze upon my angel face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick Short writes: When I first got clean, the catalyst beyond threat of discontinued financial support was certainty that I would finally be recognized for the meteoric talent that I was \u2013 that all of the reasons for which I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t