{"id":1001,"date":"2014-12-26T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2014-12-26T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T07:58:39","slug":"christmas-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Christmas feelings&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have realised that I have no feelings about christmas. I used to get excited about it but yesterday seemed like just another day, albeit one where lots of money had been spent in the run up to it. I used to start getting excited 3 weeks before. Mostly I&#8217;ve felt tired. Tired of work and tired of the stress of life. I&#8217;m not being cynical. I think I have just come to a realisation that each day is just a day. It started on my birthday I think, I turned 40 this year, but maybe before that. I think I&#8217;ve felt some kind of disappointment about my birthday and also about life to a degree. I think it has built up over the past few years. I got 4 birthday cards for my birthday, neither of my stepdaughters sent me one. Maybe that says a lot. Maybe I am getting cynical or maybe I&#8217;m seeing the world as it really is. Maybe there isn&#8217;t all that much feeling in the world, real feeling. Maybe the world just is. Anyway the deeper I go into understanding myself and my spirituality the more I can see the extremes of polarity in the world. Maybe for now my joy has been sucked out of me. Maybe I too have allowed myself to slide from balance to one polarity. Anyway I feel disappointment. Probably disappointment in myself more than others. I&#8217;m certainly not relaxed. Not at the moment. It&#8217;s a good thing that I did my 5 day retreat otherwise I might be in a deep hole. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Christmas to me has become out of my hands and stressful for several reasons. I&#8217;ve not been fully relaxed since my retreat. I&#8217;ve ended up working bloody hard up until Tuesday night, I&#8217;m like a coiled spring and tomorrow we go to London for a few days. I don&#8217;t usualy unwind until after Boxing Day but it will be after we get back from London that I can start to unwind now. My wife will no doubt read this and think I&#8217;m being selfish. If so then that&#8217;s up to her and that&#8217;s her opinion. Other than my retreat and bank holidays I&#8217;ve not had time off work since last Christmas of 2013 and if you include all of the Saturdays I&#8217;ve worked it nullifies those days off too. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I need to unwind and relax fully. I&#8217;m starting to get narrowed views and feel negative. Enough for now.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have realised that I have no feelings about christmas. I used to get excited about it but yesterday seemed like just another day, albeit one where lots of money had been spent in the run up to it. I used to start getting excited 3 weeks before. Mostly I&#8217;ve felt tired. Tired of work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas feelings&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}