{"id":90,"date":"2004-08-04T02:36:27","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=90"},"modified":"2004-08-04T02:36:27","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T02:36:27","slug":"to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"to be \\&#8221;happy\\&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angie left a comment in my livejournal a few months ago, but I never knew about it until I got an e-mail today.  Apparently, lj is rather slow in e-mailing their comments.  But I was surprised by Angie\\&#8217;s comment.  More that she quoted Elaine from Ally McBeal.<\/p>\n<p><i>Happy is easy&#8230;other people see you as happy, and then you look at yourself through their eyes&#8230;and that makes you happy.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But the problem with that is that&#8230;through out the entire Ally McBeal series, we saw Elaine as the superficial one.  She was the one that tried so hard to be perky and happy&#8230;that we almost despised her.  and we only liked her because we discover that&#8230;it was a facade.  That she was just trying to be happy to cover her own pain.<\/p>\n<p>And why should I be that way at all?  I don\\&#8217;t want to be superficial.  I want to be true to myself and tell people what I think.  I don\\&#8217;t want to shield myself behind fake emotions.  Almost everything I express to people is true.  Maybe too raw.  And for some people, I guess I trust them too much and I inadverdently unload myself on them.<\/p>\n<p>I don\\&#8217;t mean to.<\/p>\n<p>It\\&#8217;s makes me confused sometimes.  My best guy friends all&#8230;already have girlfriends.  Am I just like that?  The kind to just hitch a ride?  The most platonic of which is the friendship I have with Kyle.  The way he talks about his girlfriend seems like&#8230;that they\\&#8217;re already married.  He mocks her for getting mad when he didn\\&#8217;t have time to read her econ essay.  But that\\&#8217;s Kyle, I think.<\/p>\n<p>As I was driving back today, I realized how fleeting my own feelings about \\&#8221;relationships\\&#8221; really are.  In the past, I have always liked the \\&#8221;beginning\\&#8221; part.  I never really got to a good maintenance part.  It\\&#8217;s that thrill of the unknown.  And the excitement that things could only get better.<\/p>\n<p>I trick myself so often into believing that it could be good.  I remember that I have trouble settling into the normal.  I mean a steady relationship.  That\\&#8217;s what everyone should be striving for.  Not intense chaotic kinds.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward one year and I\\&#8217;ll still be wondering where I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angie left a comment in my livejournal a few months ago, but I never knew about it until I got an e-mail today. Apparently, lj is rather slow in e-mailing their comments. But I was surprised by Angie\\&#8217;s comment. More that she quoted Elaine from Ally McBeal. Happy is easy&#8230;other people see you as happy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=90\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">to be \\&#8221;happy\\&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}