{"id":940,"date":"2021-11-07T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/?p=940"},"modified":"2021-11-19T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:37:29","slug":"the-sixteen-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/the-sixteen-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sixteen-Year-Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Mehak Hira<br>Sri Venkateshwara\u00a0International School, Dwarka, New Delhi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere a nervous 16-year-old girl is waiting for her life to be unfolded,<br>to break free from the shackles of worldly tensions.<br>Battling her own inner fears at the same time as she battles through the world,<br>struggling to make her own place.<br>She evades through a ton of problems every day yet uncertainty looms over her.<br>The constant fear of whether she will ever be able to establish herself as the person she has always wanted makes her shudder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wise young girl knows that ten years down the line, she will probably be laughing at these trivial notions while she sips through her coffee<br>But she\u2019s isn\u2019t wise enough on how to tackle it right now because it feels like she\u2019s buried under debris.<br>She\u2019s excited as she enters her new phase of life but at the same time, the ambiguous future makes her wanna never to leave her rosy bubble.<br>While her life awaits for her, she\u2019s seen worrying about things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only she had a little more faith in herself,<br>If only she had a little more hope,<br>If only she had a little more courage,<br>If only she had a little more strength to fight her fears,<br>She would understand that the world\u2019s not all bad,<br>She would understand that the world\u2019s a beautiful place which is waiting for her,<br>She would understand that life can be tough sometimes but life has so much for her,<br>She would understand that dark times don\u2019t last forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, that 16-year-old girl is me,<br>And while I write such lines to probably inspire others<br>I struggle to find meaning in these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehak HiraSri Venkateshwara\u00a0International School, Dwarka, New Delhi Somewhere a nervous 16-year-old girl is waiting for her life to be unfolded,to break free from the shackles of worldly tensions.Battling her own inner fears at the same time as she battles through the world,struggling to make her own place.She evades through a ton of problems every day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}