{"id":358,"date":"2014-02-16T02:18:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cogiaworld.comze.com\/2014\/02\/life%c2%a0what-are-some-of-the-things-you-should-avoid-doing-in-your-first-30-years-of-life\/"},"modified":"2014-08-18T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:52:47","slug":"some-things-you-should-avoid-doing-in-your-first-30-years-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/2014\/02\/some-things-you-should-avoid-doing-in-your-first-30-years-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things you should avoid doing in your first 30 years of life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid not failing.\u00a0As in, you SHOULD fail.<br \/>\nFail a lot.<br \/>\nFail in love<br \/>\nFail in work<br \/>\nFail in friends<br \/>\nFail in family<br \/>\nFail in self-awareness<br \/>\nFail in self-esteem<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t have to try, these failures will happen naturally. Let them happen, do not live in fear of them. Let them drag you down to the depths of your worst nightmares, to places dark and suffocating and endless.\u00a0Don\u2019t worry, it will not be endless.\u00a0You will survive.\u00a0 Slowly, piece by piece, day by day you will lift yourself up and rebuild into something new, better,\u00a0different.Then, with strength in your heart and peace in your mind, say hello to your new self.And gird your loins for your 30s, because that is when the fun starts.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Life\/What-are-some-of-the-things-you-should-avoid-doing-in-your-first-30-years-of-life\/answer\/Ellen-Vrana?srid=pRRX&amp;share=1\">Page on quora<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer by Ellen Vrana to What are some of the things you should avoid doing in your first 30 years of life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[184,66,67,205,103,110,133,139],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge","category-quora-post","tag-1n","tag-fail","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-life","tag-love","tag-quora","tag-relationship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KGvB-5M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":752,"url":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/2015\/03\/25-things-ive-learned-about-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":358,"position":0},"title":"25 Things I&#8217;ve Learned About Life: Post by Derrick Fung.","author":"Abhinav","date":"March 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When I turned 25 a few months ago, I wrote down some of the things I've learned over my short time on earth. 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