{"id":3176,"date":"2017-12-11T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:15:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:15:56","slug":"we-are-all-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re all broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3178\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PYY-03022018-brokenppl-500x281-cs.jpeg\" title=\"PYY-03022018-brokenppl-500x281-cs\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PYY-03022018-brokenppl-500x281-cs.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PYY-03022018-brokenppl-500x281-cs-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That day when you realize just how broken you are&hellip; and when you reason it&rsquo;s got to be some sort of all encompassing defeatist character flaw the entire world is staring at every time you enter a room, you remember &hellip; we&rsquo;re all broken.&nbsp; But then you think &hellip; there has to be some &lsquo;perfect&rsquo; person out there.&nbsp; You know all these people in real life and on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, and you say to tell yourself they&rsquo;re all so perfectly happy all the time.&nbsp; But then that little voice in the back of your head reminds you .. most people are smiling in pictures, aren&rsquo;t they?&nbsp; There is no &lsquo;perfect&rsquo;.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve all suffered loss.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve all been broken.&nbsp; And if we&rsquo;re honest &#8211; knowing that about ourselves is nothing but a moment of clarity away from this one.&nbsp; If we&rsquo;re brave enough to be honest about who we are, to ourselves, then maybe we&rsquo;ll be one of the lucky ones to make it out of this life time having experienced a transition into understanding&hellip; to truly knowing our deepest nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maybe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That thought.&nbsp; That one terrifying thought &hellip; that we admit to ourselves who we are, and we stand face to face with that inescapable reality, for the first time in our experience as &ldquo;me&rdquo;&hellip; &lsquo;you&rsquo;&hellip; &ldquo;I&rdquo;&hellip;. How much of who I think am, who I identify myself as, am I willing to let go?&nbsp; How much value do I hold for characteristics of myself I&rsquo;m sure I need to survive in this world, and how much of those characteristics am I sure are killing me from the inside out? &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re all broken.&nbsp; Of course, some of us just hide it better than others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; of course, some just hide it better than others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PYY-03022018-brokenppl-125x166-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}