{"id":153,"date":"2026-01-31T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:51:59","slug":"bone-chilling-tiredness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/31\/bone-chilling-tiredness\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone-chilling Tiredness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is brutal cold! It&#8217;s the kind of cold where even the sun burns cold. If I didn&#8217;t know better, I&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be living on that icy planet Hoth. I went to the library and I was not productive at all. I couldn&#8217;t focus on anything other than my own personal woes. I did manage to get my blog somewhat more secured behind a proxy server and it took a while because my concentration level was that piss poor. I really just want to be able to take something like fentanyl and let myself drift away. But nothing good will come of that; quite the reverse actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s a man to do if he has ideas and goals but is otherwise unable to follow through? This is why I feel like I am failing my legacy, a legacy of successful businessmen. I suppose these feelings are contributing to some of the exhaustion because that is depression in a nutshell. It makes everything ten times harder. Even things I normally enjoy are hard and I find excuses not to do them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just realized today is the last day of January and I have little to nothing to show for it other than ideas, lost opportunities, and expensive realities. I guess I am trying to think of how February could be better but I am just not seeing it. I want to crawl into bed and sleep. I want to retreat from this bone-chilling cold and depression. I wish I had a hot fire to curl up next to and fall into a deep sleep &#8211; but I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, maybe there&#8217;s some promise of tomorrow and being able to concentrate on what I had in my mind. It&#8217;s good to have goals and it is good to want. I guess I need to carve out some time to at least watch one video or make it through one unit of the class that I intended on taking. I have to tell myself that even one hour is a form of success. Each time I tried to get to the learning management system of edX, I found myself distracted by something else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is brutal cold! It&#8217;s the kind of cold where even the sun burns cold. If I didn&#8217;t know better, I&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be living on that icy planet Hoth. I went to the library and I was not productive at all. I couldn&#8217;t focus on anything other than my own personal woes. I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}