{"id":1497,"date":"2009-04-08T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2021-10-02T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:45:06","slug":"the-weight-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/the-weight-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weight of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"Sadness\" src=\"\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sadness.jpg\" alt=\"Creative Commons License photo credit: normalityrelief\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creative Commons License photo credit: normalityrelief<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had one of those days yesterday. One of those days where the sadness of the world seems to be weighing down on me. I expect you have them too.<\/p>\n<p>On these days I wish I could turn off my beautiful gift for empathy. Sometimes I don&#8217;t want to feel everything so deeply. Sometimes I don&#8217;t want to hold the pain of others within me. Sometimes my own pain is more than enough.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many terrible things I want to change but I know I can not for I can not single-handedly save the world.<\/p>\n<p>I have to be happy with my contribution, authentically given.<\/p>\n<p>And most days I am. But on the heavy days, the days that weigh on me, it just isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"Sadness\" src=\"\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sadness.jpg\" alt=\"Creative Commons License photo credit: normalityrelief\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creative Commons License photo credit: normalityrelief<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had one of those days yesterday. One of those days where the sadness of the world seems to be weighing down on me. I expect you have them too.<\/p>\n<p>On these days I wish I could turn off my beautiful gift for empathy. Sometimes I don&#8217;t want to feel everything so deeply. Sometimes I don&#8217;t want to hold the pain of others within me. Sometimes my own pain is more than enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}