{"id":1363,"date":"2014-08-08T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2014-08-08T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:00:38","slug":"say-prayer-pretender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/say-prayer-pretender\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you there?  Say a prayer for the Pretender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/say-prayer-pretender\/\" data-text=\"Are you there%3f%2520Say a prayer for the Pretender\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/AQiXQUGbac0\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Browne lyric<\/a> came to mind when I was thinking of a title for this post. \u00a0An alternate title might be why &#8220;we should pretend not to be afraid&#8221;. \u00a0Because every day there is fear of one kind or another, to one degree or another. \u00a0To live is to exist in a state of fear.<\/p>\n<p>On occasion <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=283\" target=\"_blank\">we find ways to soothe our fear<\/a>,\u00a0but to acknowledge fear is to empower it. \u00a0And so should we pretend it does not exist? Well, pretending is bad, isn&#8217;t it? \u00a0Isn&#8217;t pretending a form of dishonesty? \u00a0Not neccessarily. \u00a0If your intent is deception, then yes, it is an act of dishonety. \u00a0But pretense needn&#8217;t be a foundation for deception. \u00a0<em>Let it be a foundation for transformation. \u00a0<\/em>For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cDon&#8217;t pretend to be what you&#8217;re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #181818;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7189272.Michael_Bassey_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">\u2015\u00a0<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7189272.Michael_Bassey_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bassey Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve never heard of Micahel Bassey Johnson. \u00a0Fair enough. \u00a0You&#8217;ve heard of Ralph Waldo Emerson? \u00a0Try this on for size:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. \u00a0Go forward and make your dreams come true&#8221;<\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dreaming, self-realization, transformation&#8230;.<em>pretending. \u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;m pretending right now. \u00a0I&#8217;m pretending I&#8217;m wearing pants. \u00a0<em><strong>Just Kidding!<\/strong> <\/em>\u00a0Seriously though, I&#8217;m pretending that I&#8217;m not afraid of someone reading this and thinking that I am stupid. \u00a0I&#8217;m pretending that someone might care at all, or that someone might read this and have an epiphany. \u00a0Without those pretenses, I probably wouldn&#8217;t bother with this at all. \u00a0In that way <strong>pre<\/strong><em>tending<\/em> becomes <strong>in<\/strong><em>tending<\/em>. \u00a0Intending becomes&#8230;???<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We live in two worlds, the \u00a0spiritual and the physical. \u00a0Apparently\u00a0we are more suited to the spiritual since humankind seems to have no shortage of dreams, theories, ideas and imagination, but when we try to bring these things into physical reality we stumble. \u00a0The two worlds don&#8217;t interface seamlessly; it appears to us that some &#8220;things&#8221; can only exist in one or the other. \u00a0But is that really true? \u00a0If it is possible to dream a dream, why can&#8217;t a dream be lived? \u00a0One thing I know &#8211; you can&#8217;t live your dream without pretending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet The Jackson Browne lyric came to mind when I was thinking of a title for this post. \u00a0An alternate title might be why &#8220;we should pretend not to be afraid&#8221;. \u00a0Because every day there is fear of one kind or another, to one degree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}