{"id":214332,"date":"2026-04-07T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/?p=214332"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:08:53","slug":"still-held-by-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/2026\/04\/214332\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Held by Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We don\u2019t always notice it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but we\u2019re all living in the presence of quiet, constant love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the kind that demands attention\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but something gentle, almost invisible,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that still manages to warm us from the inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When someone slips out of this world,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>something shifts within us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We begin to realize\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>how deeply we were loved,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and how deeply we loved in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life does end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That part is unavoidable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But love doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anything,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>once it\u2019s no longer something we can hold,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it becomes even more real\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>living on within us in a different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because we can\u2019t see it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because we can\u2019t reach it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>doesn\u2019t mean it disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It simply changed form,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and found its way inward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why, sometimes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we feel softer without knowing why,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we want to hold someone a little closer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or tears come out of nowhere\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it\u2019s that love, still moving through us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We might think we\u2019re doing life on our own,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re held, every day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by love we can\u2019t always see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that love doesn\u2019t stop with us\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it keeps going,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from one person to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodbyes aren\u2019t the end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the way they seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moment love begins,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it becomes something that doesn\u2019t really fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even now,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>carried by unseen love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we\u2019re all still here,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u51fa\u52e4\u65e5\u306f\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u3067\u3054\u78ba\u8a8d\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u5c0e\u304d\u307e\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u571f\u5c4b\u68a8\u6c99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don\u2019t always notice it, but we\u2019re all living in the presence of quiet, constant love. Not the kind that dem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","category-hitokoto"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214334,"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214332\/revisions\/214334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uranaiyakata.com\/shinjuku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}