{"id":50276,"date":"2024-11-03T20:51:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T01:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50276"},"modified":"2024-11-04T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T01:53:03","slug":"the-hardest-part-of-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50276","title":{"rendered":"The hardest part of every day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is trying to suppress how difficult life is in conversation, because if I were to be too honest about it, I would come off as curmudgeon and probably seen as overly cynical when I\u2019m just being honest, and then such would become my reputation if it already isn\u2019t at this point, and because perception is reality, everyone around me would tread even lighter than they already do to the point where I would become alienated more than I already feel like I am.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because if I were to explain that I wake up every single day of the week at 6:40 in order to be ahead of the kids as far as breakfast and preparation for the day goes and the only time I ever get a breather is when my mother-in-law visits or I\u2019m physically out of pocket, that might sound kind of rough, to almost never get a breather or opportunity to sleep in, ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love my kids, but they\u2019re at an age where everything is a fight, everything is a power struggle, they\u2019re going to bed later than they\u2019ve ever gone before, and by the time they\u2019re in bed, I\u2019m usually already hangry and frustrated at the fact that I will now have maybe two, three hours if I\u2019m willing to stay up on the later end, to actually not be a dad, which is a paltry amount of time to accomplish really anything, as if I had any hobbies left at this juncture of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

But first I have to reset the house for the next day of kid carnage, and the vast majority of the time it\u2019s just me that\u2019s doing any of it, adding to my daily frustration level.\u00a0 I do the dishes, pack the kids\u2019 lunches, pack my own lunch, generally tidy up what needs to be tidied up, and by the time I\u2019m done with everything, I\u2019ll maybe have an hour before I should really be thinking about going to bed in order for this song and dance to repeat the next day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, my life really isn\u2019t something that I imagine anyone would envy, other than the love I have and get from my beautiful kids, and along with the aforementioned struggles above, is the fact that I feel like I\u2019m trapped inside a bubble of being incapable of expressing myself, other than a brog nobody reads which is the closest thing to an outlet I have it feels like a lot of the time.\u00a0 I don\u2019t feel capable of being able to unload with my family or friends and I definitely wouldn\u2019t entertain the thought of opening up to colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s fucked up that I feel it\u2019s better to be disingenuous rather than entirely honest, because honesty would hit like a sledgehammer, and I just don\u2019t think people are tough enough to be able to handle it.\u00a0 I already feel like an island most of my life, which is absolutely frightening because the last person I want to be like is my island of a dad, but I just don\u2019t think there\u2019s anybody who could take the truth without it blowing up in some way shape or form.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is trying to suppress how difficult life is in conversation, because if I were to be too honest about it, I would come off as curmudgeon and probably seen as overly cynical when I\u2019m just being honest, and then such would become my reputation if it already isn\u2019t at this point, and because perception is … Continue reading The hardest part of every day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,45,78,77],"class_list":["post-50276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-fail","tag-lowered-expectations","tag-ronery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50282,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50276\/revisions\/50282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}