{"id":13213,"date":"2013-08-01T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/?p=13213"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:46:00","slug":"being-better-not-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/being-better-not-bitter","title":{"rendered":"Being Better &#8211; Not Bitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1150px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Have you also found how easy it is to forget how very\u00a0extraordinary\u00a0\u2014 and\u00a0fleeting\u2014 your life really is ?<\/p>\n<p>My son\u2019s death certainly gave me a big wake-up call with this realization. Nothing is guaranteed, and at any moment everything we know could change in an instant. We so easily live as if our days are innumerable, but they\u2019re not!<\/p>\n<p>As I step through the pages of my life I have learned to keep this truth, in my heart, like a starry reminder, of my truth and light. Ryan\u2019s death taught me how to step out of negative mind talk and sad stories. The experience of his loss planted me firmly into the present moment, teaching me to hold every future\u00a0experience\u00a0with as much presence as possible. For me it became all about hunting down those pinpricks of star-light between my sorrow and ho-hum tales of woe. Along the way I have found a\u00a0 gracious Gift \u2013 I found my soul mission, which is to make my\u00a0life extra-ordinary\u00a0through reaching for the Stars and the Light inside me, and then sprinkle some, as I go!<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Rumi ~ \u2018Let us fall in love again and scatter gold dust all over the world.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13215,"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions\/13215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msla.co.za\/sharyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}