{"id":819,"date":"2026-08-14T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:38:44","slug":"status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Status Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror (Lyrics)\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUKci-qdK5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well hello my readers, I suppose you might be wondering what I have been up to, or are trying to ascertain my objective here. To be honest the agenda is this the fact that I can put down things that I have felt or experienced as words in a blog to present to me and others is kind of remarkable I think anyway. If you think about it, what we do usually on a day to day basis is collect experience whether its important or not we are little collectors of stimuli. Sometimes its worthwhile and our minds create a pathway in our brains to categorize the moment and the moment though lost in time is remembered. We with our words can conjure up the past and relive it so to speak, and if the circumstances are right we trigger a response, like hey I know this this is what I remember as whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now with that, here I go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Status quo, or the way things are. Are they that way on purpose, did some author put this together in a particular sequence just because. Or are we to learn and adapt and mold the world to what we want it to be? One would think that you could in fact manifest destiny your way to nirvana, you could in theory. However as a subject to the world and the world is full of areas beyond your understanding and capabilities to change, so why bother. Well because it matters. Life matters, you matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are with you until you are no longer and you stay even longer after that. A quote I put on<br>my page sticks with me, &#8220;people will forget things you said and did but they will never forget the way you made them feel.&#8221; paraphrasing Maya Angelou&#8217;s quote a bit but more or less that is it. Be a good person, do good things, treat those around you with decency and respect. A litle bit goes a long way. Throughout your day do what is good for you but better for others. Pay it forward and change the world not just for you but for the whole. Together with that simple goal in mind to do what is best not for you but for purpose and value for the things around you makes the world a better place. The alternative is to be bitter and angry about not being fullfilled because the concern is low in scope, it&#8217;s easy to be upset when the only person you are trying to make happy is yourself. Make a change to the status quo, you never know it might just be what you have been looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well hello my readers, I suppose you might be wondering what I have been up to, or are trying to&hellip;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}