{"id":587,"date":"2023-03-21T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=587"},"modified":"2023-03-21T19:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:46:14","slug":"a-letter-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dear self, you are not what you are going through,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear self, these dark thoughts do not define you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I know it looks impossible to stay, and all of you want to disappear,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But hang in there for that broken woman who lives for you,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hang in there for that strong man who sacrificed his life for you,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear self, I beg you to hang in there for one more day.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sun may shine, the dark period will end, hope will appear,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And you will bloom like spring roses beautiful and fresh again.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear self, I need you to get up although it is challenging,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I want you to realize that this situation doesn\u2019t define you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear self, I feel your exhaustion, I feel that emptiness,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It kills you every day, doesn\u2019t it? They took away your childhood,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They took away your smile, your motherland, your ego, your little pleasures,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear self, I want you to know you are not alone on this dark road.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I desperately ask you to stay, stay, one more day, one more night,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear self, the sun may shine, and the hope will show it to you; just wait.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My dear self, you are not what you are going through,\u00a0 My dear self, these dark thoughts do not define you.\u00a0 I know it looks impossible to stay, and all of you want to disappear,\u00a0 But hang in there for that broken woman who lives for you,\u00a0 Hang in there for that strong man who … Continue reading “A Letter to Myself”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[6],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":6,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"rimtouaghed04","display_name":"Rim Touaghed","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58e17d1118eae3b2c5859a39cbea129dc24e4ec758d883a03934593e02ba33d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Touaghed","first_name":"Rim","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}