{"id":1383,"date":"2021-01-05T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:41:19","slug":"fork-in-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Fork in the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about decisions. Deciding between two things. You know the expression: &#8220;fork in the road.&#8221; How do you decide what&#8217;s right? How do you decide which path to take? And why must there be so many paths in life? (I guess this is a positive thing. I should be thankful and counting my blessings. But it&#8217;s also overwhelming and I will not discount that for one moment. It is okay to be thankful and overwhelmed all at once.)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t sleep at all last night. I am overthinking things. I am at the fork in the road. I have to make a decision&#8211;and quickly&#8211;that will and can change my life. It will most likely improve my life, if I decide one thing. But what if the other thing, that I&#8217;ve romanticized for decades, is the right choice? I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>How do you make life-changing decisions? Do you? And do you have regrets? Do you worry that life will sneak up behind you and not tell you? Do you have anxiety over your decisions? I feel as if my life is a constant swing from anxiety to anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe, just maybe, I have to take a leap of faith. Go to the fork that I&#8217;m afraid of. Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about decisions. Deciding between two things. You know the expression: &#8220;fork in the road.&#8221; How do you decide what&#8217;s right? How do you decide which path to take? And why must there be so many paths &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}