{"id":304,"date":"2020-09-30T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T07:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2021-07-15T03:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T03:42:49","slug":"youre-not-the-king-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/youre-not-the-king-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not The King Of My Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/slave-not-king.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/slave-not-king.jpg 550w, https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/slave-not-king-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@maqov?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Piotr Makowski<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8230;instead, I&#8217;m the Slave.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old, prideful me would scoff at this idea. <em>&#8220;I am the King of my own Life, the Master of my Domain. I am in control of my own destiny, nobody else is.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, the hubris!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The castle&#8217;s crumbled and you&#8217;re left with just a name. Where&#8217;s your crown, King Nothing?<\/p><cite>Metallica, &#8220;King Nothing&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always thought that somewhere inside my mind is a sovereign being, dictating my thoughts, emotions and perceptions according to my will; this sovereign being directly and completely under my control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A foolish thought. The best I could ever do is not to control my inhibitions, only to pause them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;instead, I&#8217;m the Slave. The old, prideful me would scoff at this idea. &#8220;I am the King of my own Life, the Master of my Domain. I am in control of my own destiny, nobody else is.&#8221; Oh, the hubris! The castle&#8217;s crumbled and you&#8217;re left with just a name. Where&#8217;s your crown, King Nothing? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zanazahiro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}