{"id":374,"date":"2006-04-27T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2006-04-27T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T04:39:00","slug":"re-the-way-i-see-it-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/04\/27\/re-the-way-i-see-it-76\/","title":{"rendered":"re: The Way I See It #76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerning the quote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/the-way-i-see-it-76\/\">two posts ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think part of the reason I like that quote is because I once tried to explain the exact same thing in a completely different way when I was with Emily, and I don&#8217;t know if I ever got it to make sense.  In visual terms, my explanation was something like this.<\/p>\n<p>Alone, | is a solid, balanced existence.  If you&#8217;re alone and you&#8217;re \/ or , you&#8217;re bound to fall or tip over at any moment.  You can&#8217;t support yourself.  I think it&#8217;s important to be able to be | when by yourself (i.e. relationship independant).<\/p>\n<p>\/ and  people tend to thrive in relationships because they can lean on each other.  The problem is that they require that support.  Rather than it being a bonus it&#8217;s a neccesity.  | people have a very difficult time leaning, but I think it&#8217;s important that they learn to depend on someone outside themselves in some respects.<\/p>\n<p>Having a relationship that is || is all well and good, but even || does not create as strong a base as \/.  The \/ foundation is stronger, both people are showing that they are committed to making it work.<\/p>\n<p>Even here I muddle this explanation, which is exactly why I liked that quote so much.  It says very simply what I just botched in a very complicated fashion.  People should learn to stand up on their own, but just as important is that they learn to commit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerning the quote two posts ago. I think part of the reason I like that quote is because I once tried to explain the exact same thing in a completely different way when I was with Emily, and I don&#8217;t know if I ever got it to make sense. In visual terms, my explanation was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}