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“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~Nelson Mandela<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This makes me\u00a0think of a lot of\u00a0different situations from relationships to moving to family.\u00a0\u00a0I think that most people have had the situation of running\u00a0into an old lover a few years after the relationship has ended.\u00a0 It’s usually akward and one or the other of you are with someone else at that point, but for some reason\u00a0people still\u00a0have the need to suffer through a conversation with each other in this situation.\u00a0 (I’m guilty of it too)\u00a0 I don’t really understand why people put themselves through those conversations because you usually leave with one of two thoughts: 1. Wow does that person look great, and they’ve really made something of themselves.\u00a0 Why did we break up?\u00a0\u00a0Or 2. Yeah, that person is still the same creep I remember from years ago.\u00a0 Don’t people ever change? <\/span><\/p>\n Whether you leave thinking either 1 or 2 or maybe a whole different range of other ideas, after the thought of the other person runs through your head you start to think about yourself.\u00a0 Or at least I do… I think of all the ways that I’ve changed, some for the better and some for the worse.\u00a0\u00a0Most of the time there is nothing like that feeling of realizing that I’m slowly\u00a0becoming a better person. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~Nelson Mandela This makes me\u00a0think of a lot of\u00a0different situations from relationships to moving to family.\u00a0\u00a0I think that most people have had the situation of running\u00a0into an old lover a few years after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,398],"tags":[248,208],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocbenji-special","category-top-ten","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}