{"id":7810,"date":"2015-09-10T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T23:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T23:42:48","slug":"ruok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2015\/09\/10\/ruok\/","title":{"rendered":"RUOK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"R<\/a>
\nToday is RUOK Day here in Australia. (RUOK = Are You OK?) https:\/\/www.ruok.org.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a day when we’re encouraged to ask the people around us, “Are you ok?” Many people struggle with many different aspects of life. They may be finding relationships difficult. Finance might be a problem. They might be grieving the loss of a loved one. They might be desperate for work, housing, safety, understanding, love… They might be being bullied. They might be struggling with self-worth.<\/p>\n

We all have the ability to reach out to others and check that they’re ok. And just by asking we may start a conversation that changes a life.<\/p>\n

The other evening, I came to realise that despite my many many long hours of hard work, my book is still a long way away from being finished. There’s still so much to do. I had set myself the deadline of having it available for Christmas, and I realised that unless I worked non-stop for the next few weeks, that just wasn’t going to happen.<\/p>\n

I went to bed that night feeling that it was just too hard to keep all the juggling balls in the air. Small things became big things. Sometimes I feel like I spend my life cooking meat to keep up with the protein requirements of The Gymnast. Most of the time I just laugh about it, but that night, it seemed too much. Much of the time I remember things that I need to do, but that night I just felt like writing all the lists to make sure I don’t forget things, was too much. It was just all too much.<\/p>\n

\"R<\/a>
\nI went to bed feeling sad, but I slept well.<\/p>\n

In the morning, in a moment of clarity, I realised that my self-imposed deadline of having the book out for Christmas was just that – self-imposed. And so, I decided to dispense with it. No, the book will not be ready for sale at Christmas. Part of me feels apologetic about that, because I know people are really looking forward to it. But another part of me feels completely unapologetic about it. This is my life I managing here, and I’m not going to unnecessarily make my life harder by setting a deadline that is unreachable and unrealistic.<\/p>\n

So now the book will hopefully be out in early 2016.<\/p>\n

All that is to say that I am now ok. But I’m going to ask you, “R U OK?”<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Please take the time to ask the people around you today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is RUOK Day here in Australia. (RUOK = Are You OK?) https:\/\/www.ruok.org.au\/<\/p>\n

It’s a day when we’re encouraged to ask the people around us, “Are you ok?” Many people struggle with many different aspects of life. They may be finding relationships difficult. Finance might be a problem. They might be grieving the loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-style-hardanger","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7819,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}