{"id":1336,"date":"2026-04-09T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:42:16","slug":"i-ve-watched-people-get-the-promotion-the-house-the-relationship-they-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/09\/i-ve-watched-people-get-the-promotion-the-house-the-relationship-they-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve watched people get the promotion, the house, the relationship they wanted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched people get the promotion, the house, the relationship they wanted. Then within months they&#8217;re restless again. The happiest people I know aren&#8217;t chasing anything. They&#8217;re deeply engaged with whatever they&#8217;re doing right now. Whether that&#8217;s raising kids or running a corner store.<br \/>\nMaybe the craving isn&#8217;t change. Maybe it&#8217;s just our inability to sit still with what we have.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2042078111769174177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched people get the promotion, the house, the relationship they wanted. Then within months they&#8217;re restless again. The happiest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}