{"id":22,"date":"2008-03-09T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/03\/09\/decisions-destiny\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T23:26:24","slug":"decisions-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/09\/decisions-destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisions Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not want to sound to cryptic but I am still not too comfortable discussing this, maybe another time when I do not have a headache!<br \/>\nfrom maverick owner<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/2008\/03\/09\/what-are-you-destined-to-be\/\" title=\"Mark Cuban on Destiny\"> Mark Cuban:<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em> Personally, I don&#8217;t think people &#8220;know&#8221; what they are destined to be until they try it for the first couple times.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Going to college should be about experiencing as much academically as you possibly can, but more importantly, it should be about learning how to learn and recognizing that learning is a lifelong endeavor. School isn&#8217;t the end of the learning process, its purely a training ground and beginning.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nI have two problems that was addresses from a snippet in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/2008\/03\/09\/what-are-you-destined-to-be\/\" title=\"this\">this<\/a> post by Mark Cuban.<br \/>\nOne is that you really don&#8217;t know if what you are thinking you&#8217;d want to do for the rest of your life is really what you would like to do for the rest of your life. This isn&#8217;t a big problem, the big problem is that sometimes what we want to do is so life changing that we are scared to do it.  I wanted to be cryptic at first but this is my blog I can&#8217;t help being honest. I would like to be a minister in our church but I also have many dreams that are not in sych with what I feel I was destined to do. The problem is that it times lost cannot be rewound. If I go head first with eyes wide open and find that being a soldier of God isn&#8217;t for me then what a quandry I would be in. The truth is I have made my decision already. The thing I am obssesing about is when is it now, a year from now or when I am 29 years old around 5 years from know. The original plan was at 29, the one my heart is telling me is now, the compromise a year from now.<br \/>\nI just &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not want to sound to cryptic but I am still not too comfortable discussing this, maybe another time when I do not have a headache! from maverick owner Mark Cuban: Personally, I don&#8217;t think people &#8220;know&#8221; what they are destined to be until they try it for the first couple times. Going to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/09\/decisions-destiny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Decisions Destiny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}