{"id":6,"date":"2026-06-22T14:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:42:01","slug":"looking-back-at-36-years-about-my-life-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at 36 years in my life so far.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I remember getting my first Neo laptop sometime 23 or so years ago? It felt like the world was my oyster&#8230; now I&#8217;m getting a similar kind of low-key excitement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s so exciting that I have my own website (with its own domain!) and starting this blog<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(More or less) reached the point where I can die and say, &#8220;It&#8217;s ok, I&#8217;ve lived a good life and if this is it, so be it.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve made it to a point financially where I don&#8217;t have to worry so much about anything and I&#8217;m equally proud of the fact that lifestyle inflation has not creeped up as much &#8211; my desires are pretty simple and straightforward &#8211; a room of my own, money to buy books and stationaries, freedom and autonomy to do what I want, when I want and I don&#8217;t need much else than that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI is looming more and more in the future&#8230; I have a sense of foreboding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m living the dream surrounded by books and ideas that set my heart and soul on fire every day &#8211; I feel so blessed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have a well-enough established morning ritual of silence, reading and reflection, which I&#8217;m so darn happy and proud of<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Things I am curious about and want to explore\/get better in:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Continuing this modified zettelkasten project where I write down things that move, inform, inspire, educate, remind me to be a better person<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explore a new way of getting my exercise (after weaning off the gym experience of almost 3 years, I&#8217;m ready to do this on my own)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be a competent German speaker<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Able to stop working anytime I feel like it once I turn 45<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To have my own tribe who&#8217;s interested in the same things I&#8217;m interested in (Journalling, Reading, Ideas, Being a Better Human Being)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Growing with this blog<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To be a person more of the world, exploring it in my own way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tag: #Birthday #Reflection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts: Things I am curious about and want to explore\/get better in: Tag: #Birthday #Reflection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theslowmarginalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}