{"id":2176,"date":"2011-01-13T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2011-01-13T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:14:33","slug":"i-dont-deserve-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don&#8217;t deserve to be happy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I feel happy and at peace, I&#8217;ll think of every other friends\/pple around me who are &#8216;suffering&#8217; or &#8216;slogging&#8217; hard at work (these pple don&#8217;t include BH as since he has me.. he&#8217;s the luckiest man in the whole wide world.. haha) Then I&#8217;ll ask myself &#8220;what have I done to deserve this happiness I have now&#8221; It just mks me feel like inflicting pain to myself and &#8216;suffer&#8217; so as to join the crowd of unhappy pple&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Let you into a little secret&#8230; friends who know me for a long time might have noticed that I have a bleeding or swollen thumb , which I used a plaster on (at times) when it gets very bad. Well, for years, I&#8217;ll just peel the skin of my thumb and mk myself feel the pain because I&#8217;m just so stressed and unhappy with life. Looking at my thumb now, it looks normal &#8211; I just don&#8217;t do that anymore!<\/p>\n<p>haha&#8230; do i sound nuts? I used to find it hard to tell pple that I&#8217;m happy&#8230; now I can say that I AM HAPPY and feel HAPPY at the same time&#8230; oh yes&#8230; my brain is in-sync with my heart.<\/p>\n<p>and then u may think&#8230; &#8220;duh!! If i&#8217;m like u&#8230; I&#8217;ll be happy everyday too!!&#8221; The problem is you are not me, I do have many issues that &#8216;threatens&#8217; me being happy <\/p>\n<p>These issues mks me think that why should be happy?  I have been happy for 2 years.. it needs to stop. Ok&#8230;I should let all these issues overcome me and be unhappy! I shall be unhappy&#8230; just because I haven&#8217;t done anything in the past few years to be happy&#8230; I don&#8217;t deserve to be happy<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8217;s the question: To be (happy) or not to be? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I feel happy and at peace, I&#8217;ll think of every other friends\/pple around me who are &#8216;suffering&#8217; or &#8216;slogging&#8217; hard at work (these pple don&#8217;t include BH as since he has me.. he&#8217;s the luckiest man in the whole wide world.. haha) Then I&#8217;ll ask myself &#8220;what have I done to deserve this happiness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;I don&#8217;t deserve to be happy&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}