{"id":3405,"date":"2018-09-10T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:16:12","slug":"why-do-i-keep-feeling-like-i-have-so-many-shortcomings-and-something-i-need-to-improve-when-i-stay-with-one-of-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/10\/why-do-i-keep-feeling-like-i-have-so-many-shortcomings-and-something-i-need-to-improve-when-i-stay-with-one-of-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I keep feeling like I have so many shortcomings and something I need to improve when I stay with one of my friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3389\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3389\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-2-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Why do I keep feeling like I have so many shortcomings and something I need to improve when I stay with one of my friends?\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-2-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why do I keep feeling like I have so many shortcomings and something I need to improve when I stay with one of my friends?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You&#8217;re telling yourself two stories: one about your own shortcomings and one about your friend&#8217;s successes. A story about shortcomings is just an unfinished story about successes. You&#8217;re putting endings in the wrong places, that&#8217;s all. In stories about your friend you put the endings where things work out. In stories about yourself, you put the endings where things go wrong. Just shuffle your stories around, and keep pushing through until things work out. I think you&#8217;ve got what it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re telling yourself two stories: one about your own shortcomings and one about your friend&#8217;s successes. A story about shortcomings is just an unfinished story about successes. You&#8217;re putting endings in the wrong places, that&#8217;s all. In stories about your friend you put the endings where things work out. In stories about yourself, you put &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/10\/why-do-i-keep-feeling-like-i-have-so-many-shortcomings-and-something-i-need-to-improve-when-i-stay-with-one-of-my-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do I keep feeling like I have so many shortcomings and something I need to improve when I stay with one of my friends?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}