{"id":1175,"date":"2009-03-16T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2009-03-16T02:27:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T06:27:23","slug":"what-is-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/what-is-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Quality of Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/julia.nonsociety.com\/post\/86817384\">A post by Julia Allison<\/a> prompted me to think about what &#8220;quality of life&#8221; means to me. My take is as follows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My initial thoughts:<\/strong> Quality of life is the perception that everything in &#8220;my universe&#8221; is okay. This perception is often fleeting, as each day holds a new challenge. The economist in me quantifies the quality of my life in terms of security &#8211; financial, health, trust. Those seem to be the fundamentals from which to begin my assessment. Beyond the measurables, I&#8217;ve found that I get the most quality out of my life in either of two situations: 1) I&#8217;m pursuing something I believe in; 2) my life feels balanced. The former negates the second, and vice versa. But I can get away with it because, like business cycles, quality of life ebbs and flows from hyper focus to balance and back again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow up:<\/strong> Converse to my initial response, I believe quality of life could just as easily be measured by my level of freedom. The freer I am do as I wish and be who I may, the happier I will be. With fewer restrictions on my life the quality increases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post by Julia Allison prompted me to think about what &#8220;quality of life&#8221; means to me. My take is as follows. My initial thoughts: Quality of life is the perception that everything in &#8220;my universe&#8221; is okay. This perception is often fleeting, as each day holds a new challenge. The economist in me quantifies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[867],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-quality-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}