{"id":39337,"date":"2012-01-01T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39337"},"modified":"2012-01-01T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:29:45","slug":"i-love-the-sound-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39337","title":{"rendered":"I Love The Sound Of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I live around many kids.<\/p>\n

Some people find children annoying. They’re too loud and rambunctious.<\/p>\n

I love the sound of kids playing. It’s the sound of happiness. They get so much delight out of a box, for instance. They can transform it into a hide-out or a cubby hole or a fort or almost anything of their imagination. <\/p>\n

I’m suffering from high anxiety these days as I launch my business (Alexander90210l.com<\/a>) but it never ceases to make me feel happy to hear children playing. <\/p>\n

I often wake up to the sound of children screaming as they chase each other.<\/p>\n

No matter what time the adult go to bed, it seems to me that the kids I know are always up by 8 a.m. at the latest, usually earlier.<\/p>\n

Let them stay up to midnight on occasions like last night, and they’re thrilled. It’s a grand adventure.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, seeing a lonely child is just heart rending. Sometimes kids are cruel and they’ll exclude the socially uncoordinated kid. That was often me. I know the pain of exclusion and I empathize with the poor kid going it alone. I know what it is like to be uncool.<\/p>\n

I reacted by retreating into a fantasy world where I was an amazing man who ruled the world. Grandiosity is my defense against shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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