{"id":12,"date":"2015-10-27T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marshmallowsecrets1.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2016-06-22T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:00:16","slug":"im-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSometimes I forget to be thankful for what I have or what I have accomplished in my career. I always look for perfection, I barely accept anything from myself. It might be good to push yourself sometimes and that is why I could push myself to do as much as possible with the best quality, but on the other hand that causes me to not appreciate the level I reach. Or it stops me from doing work at all because I feel like it is not good enough to send or post.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I admit that I&#8217;m hard on myself and that I do not see what I have and my strengths. It might not be that much for other people who are different than me when it comes to priorities, but I&#8217;m thankful that I chose to be a writer and a journalist. I will always be a writer. This is who I am even if I like other careers, but I won&#8217;t change that any day.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;m going to treat myself differently and focus on what I can do. I&#8217;ll give myself a break from the pressure of perfection that I&#8217;m always looking for. There is no such thing as perfection, there is only &#8220;the best I can do&#8221; and &#8220;the most quality I can give&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I know it&#8217;s going to be hard to change my ways after all these years of striving for perfection, but it&#8217;s not impossible. I can start from today and continue every single day to try my best. I was thinking a lot and I realize that I love being a writer and journalist. I should say Hamdu le Allah and be thankful for my job.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-12 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='12' data-nonce='4ffc7c348e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='\u0645\u0641\u0636\u0644' \/><span class='lc-12 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-12 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='12' data-nonce='4ffc7c348e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='\u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u0641\u0636\u0644' \/><span class='unlc-12 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-12 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I forget to be thankful for what I have or what I have accomplished in my career. I always look for perfection, I barely accept anything from myself. It might be good to push yourself sometimes and that is why I could push myself to do as much as possible with the best quality, but on the other hand that causes me to not appreciate the level I reach. Or it stops me from doing work at all because I feel like it is not good enough to send or post. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I admit that I&#8217;m hard on myself and that I do not see what I have and my strengths. It might not be that much for other people who are different than me when it comes to priorities, but I&#8217;m thankful that I chose to be a writer and a journalist. I will always be a writer. This is who I am even if I like other careers, but I won&#8217;t change that any day. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;m going to treat myself differently and focus on what I can do. I&#8217;ll give myself a break from the pressure of perfection that I&#8217;m always looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[192,136],"tags":[],"views":1511,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mashael.ink\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}