{"id":891,"date":"2025-09-29T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:25:30","slug":"891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-system-sans-serif-font-family\">I sometimes feel the urge to use some old-fashioned, harmless at first glance, phrases, like \"God bless your little one's growth and development\" or \"You are in my thoughts and prayers for a full and speedy recovery\" but withdraw for the fear they will see it as a curse, not a blessing. Maybe it's because I don't identify myself as a Christian. Maybe it's because my moral system is independent from the mainstream. And it's entirely reasonable. If you don't stick to the mainstream, how to know what to expect of you?<br><br>I look at myself through their eyes and see a demon spawn, not apparently malevolent, but definitely uncanny. And then maybe they turn their gaze to the sky and become appalled. They turn pallid, for behind the clouds they glimpse the God I serve, and it's nothing like the God of their imaginings.<br><br>It's all in my head, right? No one would think like that. But I'm still cautious, and I still avoid using any such phrases.<br><br>May 6, 2026<br><br>I can isolate at least two concrete fears.<br><br>The first one is reasonable. These odd phrases, said by me, will be burned in their memories. And if something unfortunate happens, as it well might, they will be remembered, and I will be remembered, and I will be blamed.<br><br>The second one is embarrassing. I fear I might actually put a curse. Who knows how the universe works? One thing is certain, though: it's naive to believe it's gonna be benevolent to everything that attracts its attention. Especially if I am the one who attracts it. That's how I feel.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes feel the urge to use some old-fashioned, harmless at first glance, phrases, like &#8220;God bless your little one&#8217;s growth and development&#8221; or &#8220;You are in my thoughts and prayers for a full and speedy recovery&#8221; but withdraw for the fear they will see it as a curse, not a blessing. Maybe it&#8217;s because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}