Ron C

Joined December 2024

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Creating awesomeness with a pen. Follow me at https://twitter.com/isumch

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When Sheldon Took a Flight to Propose to Amy
Sometimes, love catches you off guard. It doesn’t arrive in the packaged, planned way that you think it will. It moves you, disrupts your plans, and makes you question everything you thought you were certain about. If you’ve ever deeply loved someone, you probably know what I’m talking about. And if not? Maybe Sheldon Cooper can teach you something.
By Ron C12 months ago in Humans
If They Don’t Shake Your Soul, It Was Never Love
Have you ever noticed how someone’s simple actions can completely flip your emotional switch? One minute you’re living your best life, and the next, their single text — or lack of it — turns your whole world upside down. It’s funny how we dance around this truth, isn’t it? We call it attachment, we call it connection, we call it anything but what it really is. But I’ve been thinking lately, and I mean really thinking, about what it means when someone holds this kind of power over our emotions.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
20 Timeless Love Quotes from Literature to Live By
There’s something about love quotes from literature that just makes my heart ache in the best way possible. They wrap up all the messy, beautiful complexities of love into a few perfect lines. It’s like someone pulled emotions straight out of my chest and gave them words when I never could. You know? Whether you’re head over heels, nursing a broken heart, or somewhere in between, I bet you’ll feel these quotes in your bones.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
There’s No ‘I’ in Love
You know, I’ve always been a sucker for words, phrases, and how they tend to unexpectedly stick to your heart like Velcro. There’s this saying I’ve heard often, “There is no ‘I’ in love.” And every time someone casually throws it into a conversation, it feels like this quiet thud in my chest. Like, wait… what do you mean? Does love erase who I am as an individual? Am I supposed to just disappear for someone else when I love them? Or is it saying something bigger — more complicated, like, maybe love isn’t about obsession with yourself, but about giving? Unpacking this idea honestly feels like peeling layers off an onion, the kind that makes you cry halfway through because it gets so real.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
The Beautiful Mess of Loving Someone Who Can't Love You Back
You ever just sit quietly, staring at the ceiling late at night, asking yourself what the hell you're still doing holding on to someone who clearly doesn't care as much as you do? Yeah, same. It feels like being stuck between two realities: the one you want so badly to work out, and the one where you know you're probably drowning yourself hoping for something that'll never happen. And yet…here you are. Holding on. For the time being.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Human, Not Perfect.
We like someone when we see how perfect they are, like gods. But we fall in love when we see how infallible and human they are. What a strange, intoxicating paradox, right? Imagine it for a second. You meet someone, and they seem like they walked straight out of a dream. They’re flawless, like the kind of person you could imagine living in some divine realm or sitting atop a pedestal. You’re drawn to them, mesmerized, infatuated, because perfection is magnetic. But it’s also distant. Cold, even. You can admire perfection, maybe you can aspire to it, but you can’t hold it. And isn’t that what love really is? Holding onto someone, seeing their cracks, their contradictions, their chaos — and loving them not in spite of it, but because of it?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
We are Gladiators in Modern Times.
You ever feel like you’re not just living life but fighting through it? Like every day, you’re out there in the arena, trying to prove yourself — against others, against expectations, against your own damn doubts? It hit me one day, scrolling through social media, seeing post after post of people hustling, grinding, outshining, outperforming. And I thought, man, we really are modern-day gladiators. The only thing missing is the swords and lions, although the “lions” now are just deadlines, stress, debt, or whatever beast you’re facing. Pretty bleak, right?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Was the Taj Mahal Really a Symbol of Love?
You know how everyone just goes on and on about the Taj Mahal being this timeless “monument of love”? Like, “Oh, Shah Jahan built it for Mumtaz Mahal because he loved her so much.” Even as a kid, I bought into that whole fairy tale. The idea of someone loving another person so deeply that they’d commission this breathtaking, white-marble creation just to honor her memory — sigh. There’s something beautiful and poetic about it, right? But once I started really thinking about it, digging a little deeper, I wasn’t so sure if that version of the story was the whole truth. What if the Taj Mahal isn’t only a symbol of love? What if it’s love and power, love and vanity, or even just…well, power and ego wearing love as its mask?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Trad Wife Reality Check: Fad, Fantasy, or Freedom?
I sat down the other day, scrolling through social media - quiet afternoon, cup of tea in hand - and there it was again. Another video of an impeccably dressed woman, vintage curls perfectly pinned, baking bread from scratch with a kind of serene satisfaction I haven't seen in years. The caption read something like "Embracing my role as a trad wife, finding fulfillment in submission and homemaking", followed by a string of hashtags: #tradwife #femininityrestored #antifeminism. That's when it hit me: is this really a movement, or just a passing phase - a fad in bonnet-wearing disguise?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Is handholding in public weird?
You know, public handholding—it’s such a deceptively simple thing. Like, on the surface, what’s the big deal? Two people holding hands, weaving through a crowd, maybe swinging their arms as they walk. Yet when you really sit with it... it’s kind of deeper, isn’t it? It’s strangely personal. Holding hands in public isn’t just a physical act; it’s almost like you’re telling the world something. “This is my person.” “This is a bond we share.” Or even: “I don’t care who sees—the connection matters more than anything around us.”
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Love Is Bigger Than Us
You know, the way we talk about love these days feels so small to me. We tie it to individuals, to romance, to fleeting moments between two people—a man and a woman, or any two partners. But love isn’t about that. It can’t be. It’s about something so much larger, so much more enduring. It’s about the faith we hold in humanity. When you think about it, isn’t that what all love is, at its core? A belief in people, in the fact that we are capable of kindness, of honesty, of beauty, even when the evidence doesn’t always seem to be in our favor?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
When Giving Your All Is Not Enough
It’s one of those things that hit you in the gut, isn’t it? Giving everything — your time, your love, your trust, your soul — to someone, only to watch them hand it over, piece by piece, to someone else. If you’ve been there, I don’t even have to explain that ache because it’s universal. I think the pain comes from this raw mix of love, betrayal, and humiliation. You’re left standing there, empty-handed, wondering if you were ever enough… or if you’ve just been foolish.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans