{"id":3516,"date":"2024-05-31T11:20:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:21:30","slug":"dont-save-good-things-for-a-mythical-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2024\/05\/31\/dont-save-good-things-for-a-mythical-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t save good things for a mythical future…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following quote deeply resonated with me for some reason:<\/p>\n

Don’t save good things for a mythical future “special occasion” that may never come. Don’t leave pretty journals blank for fear of ruining them with your words, sketches, and drawings. Don’t leave the nice wine on the rack to get corked.<\/p>\n

Use the good things to make today<\/em> the special occasion. When they come to clear your house when you’re dead, let them find full journals and empty bottles. Not the other way around.<\/p>\n

(The bottles can be from fancy olive oil or something, if booze isn’t your thing. ;))”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— via (and with some little tweaks by me): @beecycling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following quote deeply resonated with me for some reason: Don’t save good things for a mythical future “special occasion” that may never come. Don’t leave pretty journals blank for fear of ruining them with your words, sketches, and drawings. Don’t leave the nice wine on the rack to get corked. Use the good things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}