{"id":1236,"date":"2017-02-19T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskrypt.co.ke\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2017-02-19T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:52:21","slug":"opportunities-dont-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/2017\/02\/19\/opportunities-dont-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities don&#8217;t last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1237\" src=\"http:\/\/theskrypt.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman-in-aeroplan-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"woman-in-aeroplan\" width=\"231\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman-in-aeroplan-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman-in-aeroplan-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman-in-aeroplan.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently,\u00a0I got an opportunity to travel to Germany. It was my first time there and I was very excited. Also, it was a great surprise to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is this perception I have, that <em>&#8216;German made&#8217;<\/em> goods are superior\u00a0in general and so I frantically<!--more--> tried to buy\u00a0as many things as possible. Unfortunately, \u00a0I ran out of Money&#8230; \ud83d\ude41 , then got anxious which\u00a0somewhat dampened what should have been a very enjoyable trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHY?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because\u00a0in my mind, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I needed to exploit it fully and running out of money mean&#8217;t that I would have to forego some stuff which made me Unhappy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think, I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If we consider how many \u00a0opportunities we have had in our lives already, we&#8217;ll realize that although they come for a time, they are endless (Confusing?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is what I mean;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Specific opportunities will be available for a specific limited time. But over our lifetime various opportunities will come to us. (Better?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have decided to live in the moment and appreciate and enjoy my opportunities while they last. And when the moment passes, to take a deep breath, relax and thank God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>After all, Opportunities may not last, but they come again and again.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently,\u00a0I got an opportunity to travel to Germany. It was my first time there and I was very excited. Also, it was a great surprise to me. There is this perception I have, that &#8216;German made&#8217; goods are superior\u00a0in general and so I frantically<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,39,53],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","tag-germany","tag-opportunity","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/surfer.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa77RY-jW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}