{"id":32647,"date":"2013-10-09T06:35:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=32647"},"modified":"2015-02-08T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:39:17","slug":"whoever-digs-a-pit-will-fall-into-it-and-a-stone-will-come-back-on-him-who-starts-it-rolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whoever-digs-a-pit-will-fall-into-it-and-a-stone-will-come-back-on-him-who-starts-it-rolling\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock-rolling-uphill-sisyphus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-39564\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock-rolling-uphill-sisyphus-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"rock rolling uphill sisyphus\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock-rolling-uphill-sisyphus-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock-rolling-uphill-sisyphus.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>My father and brother committed suicide, as have several friends through the years. None of them ever threatened to do it. So when a dramatic friend once again begins talking suicide, I know it&#8217;s just<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=32310\"> mental disorder<\/a> that compels her to do it. She knows the reaction it gets. It happens after she&#8217;s &#8220;gotten in trouble&#8221; or her latest sugar daddy has found her out and is threatening to leave. \u00a0She is someone who hasn&#8217;t yet made amends with the past and doesn&#8217;t understand that everything she does comes back to her. With empty promises she attracts enabling partners and it takes them a year to figure it out. \u00a0In that year, everything in their life begins to unravel. Then she moves on and they are left on their own to rebuild their life. <span style=\"color: #82280b;\"><em>\u00a0<strong>Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span> One\u00a0guy who knows the meaning of the word tired is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dylanfox.net\/?p=1464\">Sisyphus<\/a>, most famous for the punishment he received in the underworld: condemned to roll a rock up to the top of a mountain, only to have it roll back down for eternity. <em>Stop digging the pit and stop rolling the stone. Aren&#8217;t you tired yet?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=26316\">Clear up the past so it doesn&#8217;t taint your new beginnings<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whoever-digs-a-pit-will-fall-into-it-and-a-stone-will-come-back-on-him-who-starts-it-rolling\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whoever-digs-a-pit-will-fall-into-it-and-a-stone-will-come-back-on-him-who-starts-it-rolling\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whoever-digs-a-pit-will-fall-into-it-and-a-stone-will-come-back-on-him-who-starts-it-rolling\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whoever-digs-a-pit-will-fall-into-it-and-a-stone-will-come-back-on-him-who-starts-it-rolling\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Whoever%20digs%20a%20pit%20will%20fall%20into%20it,%20and%20a%20stone%20will%20come%20back%20on%20him%20who%20starts%20it%20rolling&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whoever-digs-a-pit-will-fall-into-it-and-a-stone-will-come-back-on-him-who-starts-it-rolling\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father and brother committed suicide, as have several friends through the years. None of them ever threatened to do it. So when a dramatic friend once again begins talking suicide, I know it&#8217;s just mental disorder that compels her to do it. She knows the reaction it gets. It happens after she&#8217;s &#8220;gotten in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39566,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32647\/revisions\/39566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}