{"id":81968,"date":"2018-08-22T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-many-yous"},"modified":"2018-08-22T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:42:45","slug":"the-many-yous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-many-yous","title":{"rendered":"The Many Yous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-many-yous.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve read some of my latest articles, you might remember that I\u2019ve been spending some time in my hometown. My quasi-holiday is not over yet, but my stay in my hometown pretty much is; I\u2019m leaving in a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>During my stay, I\u2019ve told my girlfriend many times that wandering around my hometown feels like having someone else\u2019s memories implanted in my head. I\u2019ve never considered myself too attached to the place where I grew up, but after years of absence, I\u2019ve become even less so. It\u2019s like the place doesn\u2019t have an effect on me anymore; it can\u2019t really influence me. I know my way around it and I remember where landmarks and things are, but there\u2019s little emotional connection left. It\u2019s almost like being a tourist. Even my own room, which used to be pretty much my realm up until I was 18, now feels just like any regular room\u2014in no small part because it has changed quite a bit since then. Given a few more years, I might lose all feelings for the place.<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn\u2019t be a surprise. Your feelings for places and people change and sometimes fade away altogether, over the years. This happens within currently normal lifetimes; what is going to happen if and when our lives last for centuries?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-many-yous\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-many-yous\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve read some of my latest articles, you might remember that I\u2019ve been spending some time in my hometown. My quasi-holiday is not over yet, but my stay in my hometown pretty much is; I\u2019m leaving in a few hours. During my stay, I\u2019ve told my girlfriend many times that wandering around my hometown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}