{"id":134,"date":"2011-10-28T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2011\/10\/living-vs-existing\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:10","slug":"living-vs-existing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/28\/living-vs-existing\/","title":{"rendered":"Living vs. Existing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>In reading parts of the plethora of information that has come out about Steve Jobs since his death, many traits were less than desirable (in my opinion).&nbsp; However, I did run across this clip of a speech he made to Stanford graduates some years ago.&nbsp; As I struggle with trying to see a glimmer of my dreams through the fog of sub-prime circumstances, his message resonates with the part of me that is still striving to see my dreams to fruition.<br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>Earlier this year, I touched the surface of my dreams when I studied in Switzerland.&nbsp; Since my return, I feel as if that wonderful period when many things aligned themselves to allow me to touch my dream was just that &#8211; a dream.&nbsp; Instead of living life to the fullest, I now feel as if I&#8217;m just existing.&nbsp; Just barely.<br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><br \/>\nI&#8217;m still dreaming though.&nbsp; Sometimes inspiration comes from the unlikeliest places.&nbsp; May you too be inspired&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UF8uR6Z6KLc?rel=0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading parts of the plethora of information that has come out about Steve Jobs since his death, many traits were less than desirable (in my opinion).&nbsp; However, I did run across this clip of a speech he made to Stanford graduates some years ago.&nbsp; As I struggle with trying to see a glimmer of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/28\/living-vs-existing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living vs. Existing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In reading parts of the plethora of information that has come out about Steve Jobs since his death, many traits were less than desirable (in my opinion).&nbsp; However, I did run across this clip of a speech he made to Stanford graduates some years ago.&nbsp; As I struggle with trying to see a glimmer of&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}