{"id":3223,"date":"2023-08-01T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2023-07-01T10:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T17:56:30","slug":"the-daily-grind-by-charles-ho-wang-mak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2023\/08\/01\/the-daily-grind-by-charles-ho-wang-mak\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Daily Grind&#8221; by Charles Ho Wang Mak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>The cacophonous alarm clock&#8217;s jangling<br>Announces the commencement of another day<br>A laborious struggle to toil, to earn, to remunerate<br>The never-ending bills that seem to perpetually stay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The frenzied morning rush, a hectic pace<br>As we hasten to get to our station<br>In the rat race, the interminable chase<br>For success, for recognition, for a more palatable taste<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quotidian grind, a tedious chore<br>But we persevere, pushing through the door<br>For a sense of purpose, a raison d&#8217;\u00eatre<br>For the dreams that keep us alive, and never let us forget<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But sometimes, the struggle takes its toll<br>Leaving us fatigued, burnt out, and isolated<br>Yet we continue on, through the highs and lows<br>For the hope of a better tomorrow, and a chance to evolve<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let us persevere, and find the fortitude<br>To keep on working, through any duration<br>For in the end, it&#8217;s worth the struggle<br>To live our lives with purpose, with meaning, with fortitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Charles Ho Wang Mak is a PhD Candidate and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Glasgow. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland, where he starts to admire poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cacophonous alarm clock&#8217;s janglingAnnounces the commencement of another dayA laborious struggle to toil, to earn, to remunerateThe never-ending bills that seem to perpetually stay The frenzied morning rush, a hectic paceAs we hasten to get to our stationIn the rat race, the interminable chaseFor success, for recognition, for a more palatable taste The quotidian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2023\/08\/01\/the-daily-grind-by-charles-ho-wang-mak\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-PZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}