{"id":10777,"date":"2021-01-29T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:22","slug":"on-not-finishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2021\/01\/29\/on-not-finishing\/","title":{"rendered":"On Not Finishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There was so much distance between what I felt and what I was supposed to feel. It made me sad. I was alone. Meaning unshared is barely meaning at all. My reasons for finishing, whatever finishing meant, were defined wholly extrinsically. I had believed in what society told me would happen: that I would push through a challenge and emerge, new and strong, on the other side, where love was. But I was left instead with the deep, profound emptiness that comes with knowing entirely for certain that what you were told by society was wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2020\/09\/08\/out-there-on-not-finishing\/?fbclid=IwAR3O7wxa7Yw3XYdnk7icDrrjw2POXORSvyt8JBGm1I4pIzl3ZT2JmqtJXnc\">Devin Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There was so much distance between what I felt and what I was supposed to feel. It made me sad. I was alone. Meaning unshared is barely meaning at all. My reasons for finishing, whatever finishing meant, were defined wholly extrinsically. I had believed in what society told me would happen: that I would push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,30,27],"tags":[270,301,61,152,260,269],"class_list":["post-10777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-quotes","category-recreation","tag-attention","tag-dharma","tag-life","tag-love","tag-practice","tag-suffering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10779,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions\/10779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}