{"id":1595,"date":"2013-09-14T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T22:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/09\/14\/ps-i-mentioned-the-calendar-thing-at-least-twice\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T06:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T05:41:03","slug":"ps-i-mentioned-the-calendar-thing-at-least-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/09\/14\/ps-i-mentioned-the-calendar-thing-at-least-twice\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PS. I mentioned the calendar thing at least twice. I honestly believe the Gregorian calendar we&rsquo;re using is completely out of alignment with anything we live by; it&rsquo;s moderately useful as a tool but irrelevant for us as humans.<\/p>\n<p>I was born in July. All my life I found something strange about celebrating my birthday: it was hardly a celebration. It took me 26 years to realize it&rsquo;s not a problem with me, but with the month. July combines several things that, together, are a disaster:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>too much sun &amp; heat<\/li>\n<li>wild expectations<\/li>\n<li>being tired; who isn&rsquo;t in July?<\/li>\n<li>even more expectations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This, together, caused the experience to be miserable every single time. Every year I long towards the end of the summer more and more. Not for it to end &#8211; that would be foolish &#8211; but for the few days where you can already relax after that exhausting summer and the days are still warm enough that you can.<\/p>\n<p>My year starts on September. It&rsquo;s the moment I shed the summer skin, go back to what&rsquo;s most important to me, when I regain control over my life after a period of craze. The year, viewed this way, starts with a calm, fruitful period, moves on to the Christmas time and winter, then the tiring and weird spring, and finally the hectic summer which feels like a wild party.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I could go on like this much longer. Instead, I&rsquo;ll dust off my old trusty Kindle and try to find a good book on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>PS. I promise not to get existential on my blog too often. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS. I mentioned the calendar thing at least twice. I honestly believe the Gregorian calendar we&rsquo;re using is completely out of alignment with anything we live by; it&rsquo;s moderately useful as a tool but irrelevant for us as humans. I was born in July. All my life I found something strange about celebrating my birthday: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}