{"id":13073,"date":"2017-07-11T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2017-07-12T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:15:03","slug":"now-im-scared-of-it-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/now-im-scared-of-it-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"now i’m scared of it happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"humans<\/a><\/p>\n

inspiration, via humans of new york<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI always wanted to be a mental health therapist. Ever since high school, I\u2019ve enjoyed encouraging people and giving them hope. But I lost my way. I got caught in a world of addiction. I lost ten years of my life to drugs. I stopped when I became pregnant with my child, but by that time it was too late to go back to school. I started working as an office manager. I never completely lost my dream. But I just put it on a shelf for thirty years. Then five years ago I to\u2026ok it off the shelf. I heard a lady in my choir talking about how she enrolled in community college. I drove there the very next day. I was so nervous when I filled out the application. I was so nervous the first day of class. All the old voices were telling me: \u2018You never finish anything.\u2019 But I said \u2018fuck you\u2019 to the old voices. And I started getting A\u2019s. On my first test, I got the only perfect score in the class. I graduated at the age of 50. I got my Masters at 55. And just last night I completed a mental health first aid course. I\u2019m so close now. There\u2019s still fear there. I used to be afraid of it never happening. Now I\u2019m afraid of it happening. The old voices try to come back sometimes. They tell me: \u2018You can rest,\u2019 or \u2018You\u2019ve earned a break.\u2019 But I\u2019m not stopping this time. Somebody out there is waiting for me to finish because they need my help.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

inspiration, via humans of new york: \u201cI always wanted to be a mental health therapist. Ever since high school, I\u2019ve enjoyed encouraging people and giving them hope. But I lost my way. I got caught in a world of addiction. I lost ten years of my life to drugs. I stopped when I became pregnant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13080,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions\/13080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}