{"id":81,"date":"2019-04-14T00:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T00:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2026-09-08T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:06:15","slug":"the-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/14\/the-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"lb-reading-page\" lang=\"en\"><header class=\"lb-masthead\"><a href=\"\/\">Life in Balance Journey<\/a><p>Personal stories \u00b7 Self-awareness \u00b7 Life in balance<\/p><nav aria-label=\"Main navigation\"><a href=\"\/\">Home<\/a><a href=\"\/index.php\/blog\/\">Writings<\/a><a href=\"\/index.php\/about\/\">About<\/a><a href=\"\/index.php\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/nav><\/header><a class=\"lb-back\" href=\"\/index.php\/blog\/\">\u2190 Back to writings<\/a><p class=\"lb-category\">FROM MY SOUL<\/p><h1>The Decision<\/h1><p class=\"lb-meta\">By Alejandra Gomez Perez<br>April 14, 2019 \u00b7 English<\/p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lb-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/46edfa51-943d-47c1-8d94-9064b53c2a4c.jpg\" alt=\"Eyes looking directly at the viewer above a teal scarf\" width=\"1241\" height=\"1241\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1;object-fit:contain;height:auto\"><div class=\"lb-prose\">\n<p>In front of the mirror, are only your eyes. There is a door to go through your most hidden places.<\/p><p>Once you decide to enter, you will have to be prepared, there are only two options, to be brutally honest with yourself, committed to discover who you really are, taking the responsibility and direction of your life, or walk away, being blind and pretend that life is a given story managed by a third party, that we are only victims of someone else\u2019s dreams <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"lb-signature\">Alejandra<\/p><a href=\"#respond\">Leave a comment<\/a><a class=\"lb-next\" href=\"\/index.php\/2019\/04\/14\/the-first-glimpse-of-love-and-acceptance\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:auto;object-fit:contain;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_3785.jpg\" alt=\"Original image accompanying this writing\" loading=\"lazy\"><span><small>KEEP READING<\/small><strong>The First Glimpse of Love and Acceptance<\/strong><\/span><\/a><a class=\"lb-all\" href=\"\/index.php\/blog\/\">See all writings \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In front of the mirror, are only your eyes. There is a door to go through your most hidden places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinbalancejourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}