{"id":2229,"date":"2009-03-03T23:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T05:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2009-06-20T16:06:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T21:06:47","slug":"making-the-voices-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/03\/making-the-voices-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Voices Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m a really intellectual person, I&#8217;m in my head more than I should be.\u00a0 I think about things wayyyyyy too much sometimes and to get my mind off of something or somebody, I focus on something else as a distraction.\u00a0 Something I should be focusing on.\u00a0 I now realize that this is a mistake, I should deal with why I obsess over things so that I stop obsessing.\u00a0 I should stop dumping pails of water out of a sinking boat and find a way to plug the hole in the boat.\u00a0 I&#8217;m kinda bipolar when it comes to things so I&#8217;m either all about it or don&#8217;t care at all, which is why I probably have been using my distraction method.\u00a0 One other way that I have found that works is to write out what I&#8217;m thinking about. I think I&#8217;ll try it.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m obsessing about somebody that I&#8217;m getting to know (Lets call her the hip hop hippie or HHH).\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to decide to how I feel about her and what she will be to me.\u00a0 And as usual I&#8217;m over analyzing everything little thing that goes on in our interactions.\u00a0 I try to break down what this word or that gesture meant or what I should say to make her think this or that with me.\u00a0 This is normally not that hard.\u00a0 I can usually read people in a few minutes but my radar ain&#8217;t working on her.\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t read her and its really fustrating when\u00a0 all I want to do is just shut up and enjoy her company.\u00a0 Earlier in the day I knew it was bad cause I didn&#8217;t get my normal call from her the night before and was thinking about her all day at work and lit up like a xmas tree when HHH called.\u00a0 I know its nowhere near healthy to feel such highs and lows from another person but I love the feeling.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll wear off one day but until then, I&#8217;m just gonna enjoy the ride.\u00a0 We had dinner tonight.\u00a0 And I finally got an answer on how a feel about her.\u00a0 Now what I&#8217;m gonna do with those feelings is another question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 So I&#8217;m a really intellectual person, I&#8217;m in my head more than I should be.\u00a0 I think about things wayyyyyy too much sometimes and to get my mind off of something or somebody, I focus on something else as a distraction.\u00a0 Something I should be focusing on.\u00a0 I now realize that this is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-benji","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}