{"id":15768,"date":"2016-05-14T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2016-05-14T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T21:53:16","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Be patient, you are coming home to yourself.” – Nayyirah Waheed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I feel like I probably have a post titled “Home” from earlier in the year. What can I say – concussions bring about deja vu? And also a slew of blog posts and reflections apparently.<\/p>\n

This week was an exercise in patience. In learning how to sit\u00a0at home. And not do anything. And not think about anything. And let go.<\/p>\n

It was hard. To not jump at everything that came my way, to not respond right as soon as I saw something, to not react (or at least try to). But when you have a limited amount of energy to spare, it has a way of naturally cutting out the extra.<\/p>\n

There are a few things that have been on my mind to do recently, but I’ve hesitated because it hasn’t felt like the right time. I’ve been feeling the\u00a0pressure – to\u00a0act, to take initiative, to put something out there. I just haven’t been able to for some reason.<\/p>\n

When I was little I was often given this piece of advice (and I very stubbornly refused to internalize it each time):<\/p>\n

“Waqt se pehle aur kismat se zyada kuch nahi milta hai.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Roughly translated, it\u00a0means that you never get more than what you are destined for before your time. (Patience has\u00a0never been\u00a0my thing.) Recently though, this has proven to be true over and over again.<\/p>\n

I know there’s a fine line between waiting to be ready and diving in. But in a world where a 24-hour news cycle and\u00a0Snapchat exist simultaneously,\u00a0there are so many opportunities for instant action and gratification.\u00a0It\u2019s easier now more than ever to cater to impulses. It almost seems like \u00a0letting some things\u00a0pass by, taking time not to act, not to\u00a0give into the pressure to react is an\u00a0act of activism in itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Be patient, you are coming home to yourself.” – Nayyirah Waheed I feel like I probably have a post titled “Home” from earlier in the year. What can I say – concussions bring about deja vu? And also a slew of blog posts and reflections apparently. This week was an exercise in patience. In learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livedetroit","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}