{"id":439,"date":"2004-05-25T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/25\/the-big-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:38","slug":"the-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/25\/the-big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve happened across a new-to-me blog called <a title=\"seeking-clarity.blog-city.com\" href=\"http:\/\/seeking-clarity.blog-city.com\/index.cfm\">seeking clarity<\/a>, and I&#8217;m drawn to the writer&#8217;s style.  She is sincere, candid, and asks important questions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t even get to Ellensburg without a confidence crisis; how the hell am I supposed to choose at this fork?  Left or right?  East or west?  And what if I think I&#8217;m turning one way and I suddenly realize that I&#8217;m going the wrong way?  What if I&#8217;ve been going the wrong way all along?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/seeking-clarity.blog-city.com\/read\/623149.htm\">the entry<\/a>, Diana explores the versions of her life.  This is always fascinating &#8212; we are complex, and our lives can be viewed from numerous vantage points.  Her post reminded me of the concept of <a href=\"\/mindfullife\/archives\/000140.html\">metaphors of the self<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Such an important question: is there a right way through life, and if so, how am I supposed to know?  I&#8217;m interested in your opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve happened across a new-to-me blog called seeking clarity, and I&#8217;m drawn to the writer&#8217;s style. She is sincere, candid, and asks important questions. I can&#8217;t even get to Ellensburg without a confidence crisis; how the hell am I supposed to choose at this fork? Left or right? East or west? And what if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12927,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/12927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}