{"id":12925,"date":"2026-06-07T21:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=12925"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:40:09","slug":"rearview-mirrors-saturday-june-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/rearview-mirrors-saturday-june-13-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rearview Mirrors\u00a0&#8211; Saturday, June 13, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Say not thou,\u00a0What\u00a0is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Ecclesiastes 7:10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite staring at his laptop for nearly an hour, Melvin had yet to come up with an idea for the writing assignment due on Monday for his behavioral science course.\u00a0 Feeling frustrated, he decides to self-soothe with a frosty from McDonald\u2019s, hoping it will ignite a theory for why some people choose not to live life to its fullest.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin\u2019s quiet meditation was soon interrupted by the arrival of three seniors, two women and one man, who chose a booth across from him. Their loud voices made it impossible for Melvin not to overhear their lively conversation about people and things from their past, with each one sharing fond memories. However, it was when one of them asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s new?\u201d that their voices grew silent and their meals became the focus of attention.<\/p>\n<p><em>If the only things worth talking about are the things that are no longer\u2014your past\u2014then you\u2019ll never recognize and enjoy what&#8217;s in your present.\u00a0<\/em> This was Melvin\u2019s summation for an essay titled \u201cRearview Mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say not thou,\u00a0What\u00a0is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this \u2013 Ecclesiastes 7:10 Despite staring at his laptop for nearly an hour, Melvin had yet to come up with an idea for the writing assignment due on Monday for his behavioral science course.\u00a0 Feeling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/rearview-mirrors-saturday-june-13-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rearview Mirrors\u00a0&#8211; Saturday, June 13, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12929,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12925\/revisions\/12929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}