{"id":1772,"date":"2009-05-22T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2009-05-20T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T09:59:32","slug":"life-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/1772\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the skies thundered and sparked,<\/p>\n<p>And the heavens poured to their hearts content<\/p>\n<p>The water trickling and spraying on my tear-drained face<\/p>\n<p>Drenched in self-sympathy and remorse,<\/p>\n<p>Feeling the heaviness swelling in my heart ,<\/p>\n<p>I thought,\u00a0 Life ! its just not fair on me!<\/p>\n<p>Life is not fair on me, had I thought?<\/p>\n<p>Thankless and Ungrateful with my mind , I fought,<\/p>\n<p>Hush NO! I have indeed been blessed by Amma,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Amma for all that you gave me,<\/p>\n<p>Life is but my loyal friend,<\/p>\n<p>Never tires teaching in spite of my failures,<\/p>\n<p>Patient and waiting, for my transformation<\/p>\n<p>To Break the cocoon of my mind<\/p>\n<p>And emerge out stronger and beautiful<\/p>\n<p>To make my life worthwhile and selfless,<\/p>\n<p>When the night is at its darkest, Dawn is about to break,<\/p>\n<p>The fiery of sorrowful events are just fake<\/p>\n<p>As Amma says, Optimism is the grace of God,<\/p>\n<p>I marched forward with new profound strength for<\/p>\n<p>Blessed is the human facing life with undaunted courage<\/p>\n<p>Smiling amidst all trials , Arise and Rejoice said the sage,<\/p>\n<p>Be blissful for that\u2019s your nature! Yes, Life is beautiful!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Preeti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the skies thundered and sparked, And the heavens poured to their hearts content The water trickling and spraying on my tear-drained face Drenched in self-sympathy and remorse, Feeling the heaviness swelling in my heart , I thought,\u00a0 Life ! its just not fair on me! Life is not fair on me, had I thought? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}