{"id":69264,"date":"2012-12-26T00:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=69264"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:00","slug":"the-joy-of-endings-and-the-gloom-of-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20121226\/everyday-events\/the-joy-of-endings-and-the-gloom-of-beginnings","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Endings & The Gloom of Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Year after year
\nthings begin and end,
\nI reflect and think about my hopes for next year,
\nand somehow fall just short of achieving them,
\nand it’s on to next year again
 
\n
 
Really!
\nJust a little more left, and 2012 is almost over\u2014this year I haven’t pushed myself that hard,
\nbut next year in 2013 I’d like to try a little harder than I did this year\u2605
\n“There’s no point in just vaguely going through the motions day after day without purpose.”
\n“Success feeds me, failure feeds me”\u2014daily improvement\u2605
\nEven though the year isn’t over yet, thank you so much for everything this year\u266a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year after year things begin and end, I reflect and think about my hopes for next year, and somehow fall just short of achieving them, and it’s on to next year again   Really! Just a little more left, and 2012 is almost over\u2014this year I haven’t pushed myself that hard, but next year in 2013 I’d like to try a little harder than I did this year\u2605 “There’s no point in just vaguely going through the motions day after day without purpose.” “Success feeds me, failure feeds me”\u2014daily improvement\u2605 Even though the year isn’t over yet, thank you so much for everything this year\u266a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-69264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}