{"id":14343,"date":"2013-10-18T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=14343"},"modified":"2013-10-21T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T07:58:25","slug":"alone-super-short-story-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2013\/10\/alone-super-short-story-247\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone: Super Short Story (247)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14344\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/14.jpg?resize=215%2C184\" width=\"215\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/14.jpg?w=215&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/14.jpg?resize=96%2C82&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>Super Short Story (247): Alone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As she laid on the bed<br \/>\nbeside her love after making love,<br \/>\nshe realised something<br \/>\nexistentially distressing and liberating at the same time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is,\u00a0even when with the beloved,<br \/>\nwith all the intimacy possible,<br \/>\nthere is no way to really attain the beloved,<br \/>\nto even hold on to someone&#8217;s body and mind for an instant &#8211;<br \/>\nbecause everyone is physically and mentally changing all the time, slipping away.<\/p>\n<p>It struck her that\u00a0she was born alone, and will die alone.<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s so clich\u00e9d a notion.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s new is that in between,<br \/>\nshe is alone too, despite being with others.<\/p>\n<p>But that also means she is free from others,<br \/>\nas her body and mind changes in each instant too.<br \/>\nYet, there is interdependence in interaction with others,<br \/>\nthat need not demand to have and to hold &#8211;<br \/>\nlike a truer kind of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Short Story (247): Alone As she laid on the bed beside her love after making love, she realised something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[419,381,25],"class_list":["post-14343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-existentialism","tag-interdependence","tag-love","wpcat-606-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}