{"id":1518,"date":"2016-12-11T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2016-12-11T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:45:08","slug":"short-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"**Short Journey**"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A young lady was sitting in a bus. At the next stop a loud and grumpy old lady came and sat by her. She squeezed into the seat and bumped the young lady with her numerous bags.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The person sitting on the other side of the young lady got upset, asked her why she did not speak up and say something.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The young lady responded with a smile:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*&#8221;It is not necessary to be rude or argue over something so insignificant, the journey together is so short.&#8221;*<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">We need to realize that our time here is so short; that to darken it with quarrels, futile arguments, not forgiving others, discontentment and a fault finding attitude would be a waste of time and energy.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Did someone break your heart?<br \/>\nBe calm, *the journey is so short.*<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Did someone betray, bully, cheat or humiliate you?<br \/>\nBe calm, forgive, *the journey is so short.*<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">No one knows the duration of this journey. No one knows when their stop will come. Our journey together is so short.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Let us cherish friends and family. Let us be respectful, kind and forgiving to each other. Let us be filled with gratitude and gladness.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If I have ever hurt you, I ask for your forgiveness. If you have ever hurt me, you already have my forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After all, our journey together is so short.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">This story is&nbsp;a forward from various media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young lady was sitting in a bus. At the next stop a loud and grumpy old lady came and sat by her. She squeezed into the seat and bumped&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aikya-story-time","tag-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/positive-energy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}