{"id":52659,"date":"2019-06-22T19:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52659"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:47:54","slug":"prompt-11-letter-to-my-former-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-11-letter-to-my-former-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #11 Letter To My Former Self"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dear 20 year old Janice,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\nNot much has changed huh?<\/strong><\/em>\r\nInsecurities still going strong.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis letter is going to be a mix of everything, <\/strong><\/em>\r\nregrets, advice, hopes and aspirations..<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI hope you remember to smile often,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nAnd practice Kindness..<\/strong><\/em>\r\nBe kind to yourself as well as towards others.<\/strong><\/em>\r\nYou are doing a good job.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nYou are such a strong and brave young woman.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nYou inspire me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nI haven't been as strong as I was when I was 20.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nFighting for your life,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nHanging onto a very thin thread, <\/strong><\/em>\r\nand the unpredictability of your health condition.<\/strong><\/em>\r\nYou handled it gracefully and the best you could.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\nSure you missed out on a great deal <\/strong><\/em>\r\nof normal things kids at 20 do, but, <\/strong><\/em>\r\nthat's okay. Looking back I recall it\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nbeing an adventure of a lifetime.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\nI wish you could have appreciated\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nyour parents and acknowledged\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nthe sacrifices mum pulled in for you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nDad worked tirelessly to pay <\/strong><\/em>\r\nthe surmounting hospital bills and <\/strong><\/em>\r\nWendy grew up without any assistance.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\nHave a little patience,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nIt's okay to fail,<\/strong><\/em>\r\nLove yourself.<\/strong><\/em>\r\nBelieve in yourself.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nStay true to yourself.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\nThe future is bright\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nand all of this will be\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nover you, just be patient,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nHang on,<\/strong><\/em>\r\nthe struggle isn't over,<\/strong><\/em>\r\nThere's more struggle coming along...<\/strong><\/em>\r\nyou still got fight left in you<\/strong><\/em>\r\ngive it your best shot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\nDon't worry,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nLet go,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\nYou don't need to be in control of every situation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\nNot everyone is going to agree with you and like you<\/strong>\r\nbut that's okay.<\/em><\/strong>\r\nNot everyone is going to understand you, <\/strong>\r\nthat's fine.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nDon't sell yourself short<\/strong>\r\nNever ever compromise on your self worth.<\/strong>\r\nRemember some people are assholes <\/strong>\r\nthere's not much you can do about that.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nLove from the future.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n-Janice Raquela Mendonca\u00a0\u00a0\r\n<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n
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Dear 20 year old Janice,\u00a0 Not much has changed huh? Insecurities still going strong. This letter is going to be a mix of everything, regrets, advice, hopes and aspirations.. I hope you remember to smile often,\u00a0 And practice Kindness.. Be kind to yourself as well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52659","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=52659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52989,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52659\/revisions\/52989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}