{"id":41865,"date":"2017-08-06T05:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41865"},"modified":"2017-08-06T06:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:08:33","slug":"poem-21-self-doubt-j-r-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-21-self-doubt-j-r-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #21 (Self Doubt  j.r.m\u00a9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41958\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anxiety-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anxiety-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anxiety-768x941.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anxiety.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Are you sure you want to wear this to the party?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What will people think?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I bet they&#8217;ll tear you down the minute you walk in.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gorge you with disgusted and pitiful stares.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>You sure you want to really go down this path and dredge up the past from its grave?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Haven&#8217;t you embarrassed yourself enough?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> I hate to be the one to say, &#8221;TOLD YOU SO.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>You are good for nothing,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I am the only one who is genuinely frank with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>What if it doesn&#8217;t work?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>what are the risks?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What are the repercussions of my actions?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Have you thought this through?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>What if no one really buys my book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>what if they fail to resonate with my words?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>what if they hate it?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>what if they don&#8217;t approve?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What if I fail?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>How will I recover?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt;text-align: center\"><strong>Self Doubt is a disease of the mind,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the more you listen to it <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the more importance you give it.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Next thing you are acknowledging it,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and are getting influenced. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Self doubt &#8211; A destructive way to destroy your individuality.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tap it out before it taps you out.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>j.r.m\u00a9<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you sure you want to wear this to the party? What will people think? I bet they&#8217;ll tear you down the minute you walk in. Gorge you with disgusted and pitiful stares. You sure you want to really go down this path and dredge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41976,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865\/revisions\/41976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}