{"id":18688,"date":"2025-04-12T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/today-in-my-head\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:10:26","slug":"today-in-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/today-in-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in my head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It turns out, life is never what you think it is. Several times in my life, I’ve learned this lesson. Sometimes the hard way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just because you think it’s important, doesn’t mean it is. We are always deciding which thoughts are important enough to act on. Everyday decisions are the real meat and potatoes of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we choose to follow the herd, or step out on our own? Stay or go. Buy or steal. Fight back or apologize. Choices we make seem right at the time, but the disasters they cause beg to differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All you can do is pick up the pieces and try again. Try and do it better. Make it right. Start over. Forward. Now will be the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future will arrive. The doubts will clear. Maybe this time it was someone else’s fuck up that knocked us down. We’ll fuck up again. Or maybe we’ll succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doesn’t matter. The system is designed to keep you down. We’ll get knocked down, by our own stupidity or someone else’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we’ll get up and do it again.
Until we don’t.
Fuck the system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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