{"id":855,"date":"2013-05-22T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2013-05-22T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:46:10","slug":"poem-chrysalis-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/poem-chrysalis-security\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Chrysalis of Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I shed my chrysalis of security<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Arising as a butterfly<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Only then realizing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">I was not the worm<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">That I appeared<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am struck by how the quest for security can easily become a prison. \u00a0Whether the quest for security is played out through money, material comforts, emotional familiarity, moral compromise, or big, juicy mental rationalizations, letting go of the known, familiar, and predictable seems\u00a0necessary\u00a0to take flight amidst the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being#Philosophical_underpinnings\" target=\"_blank\">unbearable lightness of being<\/a>&#8220;. \u00a0Apparently, a common regret of the dying is about not having taken enough risks. \u00a0Well, we are all dying. \u00a0The question is really: Am I living?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shed my chrysalis of security Arising as a butterfly Only then realizing I was not the worm That I appeared I am struck by how the quest for security can easily become a prison. \u00a0Whether the quest for security &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/poem-chrysalis-security\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[330,359,66,155,658,94,649,316,260,659,53,257],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-compromise","tag-life","tag-money","tag-moral","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-prison","tag-rationalization","tag-risk","tag-security","tag-short-poems","tag-zero-risk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Chrysalis of Security | Poems | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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