{"id":100,"date":"2006-08-01T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/fionna\/cafelatte\/?p=102"},"modified":"2006-08-01T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T10:51:50","slug":"life-is-about-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Life is about choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life isn&#8217;t about keeping score.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not about how many people call you and it&#8217;s not about who you&#8217;ve dated, are dating or haven&#8217;t dated at all.<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t about who you&#8217;ve kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school.<br \/>\nIn fact, it&#8217;s not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not.<br \/>\nLife isn&#8217;t about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone,<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s not about how accepted or unaccepted you are.<\/p>\n<p>Life just isn&#8217;t about that.<\/p>\n<p>But life is about who you love and who you hurt.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about how you feel about yourself.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about trust, happiness and compassion.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love.<br \/>\nLife is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance and building confidence.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about what you say and what you mean.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about seeing people for who they are and not what they have.<br \/>\nMost of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else&#8217;s in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>These choices are what life&#8217;s about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nNo more pre-planned series of verses. Inspirational Thoughts have been re-invented. They come just as they are.<\/p>\n<p>No garaunteed continuation plan, but whenever I get inspired or am inspired by other quotes, I will share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life isn&#8217;t about keeping score. It&#8217;s not about how many people call you and it&#8217;s not about who you&#8217;ve dated, are dating or haven&#8217;t dated at all. It isn&#8217;t about who you&#8217;ve kissed, what sport you play, or which guy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elm3.org\/?p=100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}