{"id":79,"date":"2014-12-19T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-12-19T02:53:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:53:19","slug":"the-girl-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"The Girl in the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a ghost today. I&#8217;ve seen them here before. Sometimes they haunt my dreams, but today it was real.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She looked a broken, sad you might say. Like she had seen one too many ghosts herself, such an irony.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The scars on her wrist, told me shed been through hell, most likely more than once.\u00a0The scars on her back and the scars on her legs told me that\u00a0most of\u00a0the scars\u00a0weren&#8217;t her own, rather they were ones others had given her.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But that wasn&#8217;t the saddest part, the\u00a0saddest part were\u00a0the scars inside her soul, those told me the saddest tales. Ones\u00a0of an incomprehendable childhood, one where her wings were clipped and her intellect and\u00a0free will\u00a0destroyed with rules and commands a century old. The scars told me stories of trust, of laughter, and of faith. All\u00a0in a world that teased and taunted her with such things but never let her have it. Trust?\u00a0It\u00a0had\u00a0been broken with lies,\u00a0cheating, and something so dark and buried so\u00a0deep, no\u00a0one truly wanted to know what caused them.\u00a0Laughter? It had been\u00a0drown out by the\u00a0thousands of tears cried alone&#8230;in vain. And the faith? The\u00a0faith was the hardest to\u00a0understand. Faith in the world. Faith in people. Faith in the future. Faith in\u00a0herself. All lost\u00a0in a thousand moments of watching people fail her. People disappoint her. People leave her. Until she understood the only one she could count on\u00a0was herself.\u00a0I felt my heart buckle.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And just as I was about to look away, not able to contain my emotions from the sight of such a damaged and eerily familiar little ghost,\u00a0I looked into her eyes,\u00a0and I saw something I cant explain. It\u00a0stopped my breathing, and I&#8217;m almost sure my already buckled\u00a0heart skipped a beat or two. Because as I stared into her eyes,\u00a0despite her broken heart, her broken trust, her broken beliefs,\u00a0and her broken mind, her eyes told a different story, one that\u00a0I wanted to hear, a story\u00a0of a part of her that wasn&#8217;t broken&#8230;her spirit.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a ghost today. I&#8217;ve seen them here before. Sometimes they haunt my dreams, but today it was real. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She looked a broken, sad you might say. Like she had seen one too many ghosts herself, such an irony. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The scars on her wrist, told me shed been through hell, most likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}