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I Hear the Doorbell Ring
I hear the doorbell ring. That's how it usually starts. Every now and then, I think about Ricardo coming back to me. I've imagined this conversation a million times in my head. I'm at a hotel room in Buenos Aires, as I am today. Maybe because that's where we met so many times, so many years ago. I'm looking out the window trying to gather the strength to see him face-to-face again, for the first time in 12 years.
By Emilio Valdés8 years ago in Humans
How To Not Bury Your Boyfriend Over the Holidays. Top Story - December 2017.
Leaving your boyfriend's side for the holidays can feel like a sadistic remake of Christopher Nolan's movie, The Prestige. One moment, he's by your side constantly. He's the first person you call when you're losing your mind over an exam, the one you can rely on for a good popcorn fight or a star-watching adventure. He makes you laugh the most, and he knows all of your roommate drama, your pet-peeves, and your cheesy moves. He's your best friend.
By Vocallaborate Vocallaborate8 years ago in Humans
How I Fell In Love With Myself Before Someone Else Could
In the eye of this emotional and mental hurricane, I felt like there wasn’t a lot of hope for me. Everything felt like the end of the world, which I now know wasn’t the case. I felt like the world would’ve been an easier place without me in it. The space that I was taking up should’ve been put into better use. I only ever wrote poetry about sadness and how I was tired of only writing poetry about sadness. Things were not looking up for me. There was no light at the end of the dark tunnel I had been stuck inside.
By Taylor Ramseyer8 years ago in Humans
L.O.V.E Nowadays
LOVE. A 4 letter word that can invoke almost every single emotion known/unknown to mankind. When you hear the word love what runs through your mind? A beloved family member? A close friend? A particular boy/girl that somehow has the ability to make your heart skip a beat?
By Sam's Babble8 years ago in Humans
Stages of Friendship
For the most part, it seems like when we are younger it is a lot easier to make friends. I mean, you could become friends for the simplest of reason. A typical kindergartener's dialogue might go somewhat like this "Oh! You like tater tots. I like them, too," and from this one similarity a friendship is born. We become friends, but we do not understand the concepts behind the word nor the development of the friendship. We just slap the term friend on any person that makes us feel good and has some similarity to us.
By Jermaine Tucker8 years ago in Humans
Through Fire
I'm beginning to think I am unlucky in love. Allow me to tell you why. I married at a young age... Well young to me. At the age of 21, while working at a coffee shop, I encountered two aged women who gave me some advice. I thought it was good advice at the time. Marry your best friend. Sounds good right? Well let me say that these two women were merely customers who did not know me personally. They were visiting my fair city of Detroit from California. Because of my dashing good looks and effortless customer service skills, they deemed me a good catch. They were appalled when I informed them that I was unhitched.
By Tim Ellerbe II8 years ago in Humans
Younger Than Him
I am a blessed new mother of a beautiful and perfect seven-month-old baby boy. Being twenty three during my pregnancy, my age was not one of the things I was worried about, one way or the other. When my friends and family first learned of my pregnancy, I got an odd mix of "you're still so young" and "about time you had a baby" that I didn't quite expect. The most unexpected reaction, however, was how people reacted to my boyfriend's age.
By Christine Shimek8 years ago in Humans
The Bible Doesn't Make Me Good
Goodness isn't contained within the two covers of the Christian bible. The act of being a good person doesn't belong to any religion. There are both good and bad Christians, just like there are good and bad Muslims, or good and bad Jews, or even good and bad Buddhists. There are simply good and bad people, and the notion that one has to live a life according to the bible if they want to have a meaningful, moral, and good life is lost with me.
By Darien Walsh-Levi8 years ago in Humans
Want Better Relationships? Start with Yourself
I know. It sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it? Don’t we all have that friend or family member (or maybe it’s you) who is always there, giving selflessly of her time and talents? I mean, everyone loves that woman, so don’t you want to be that woman, or just like her? Don’t you imagine that she has a ton of friends who love her right back and will drop everything to help her right back if necessary? (I suppose this person could be a man, but yeah, not so often). Often times, though, this friend is drained and not feeling great about her friends not reciprocating. She might just think that’s how things work, that friends just take advantage, and you either deal with it or have no friends. Does she think she doesn’t deserve friends who love her right back? Damn, I hope not.
By OhmMyGoddess8 years ago in Humans
Some People Are Better Left in the Past
Pain will leave you, when you let go. - Jeremy Aldana Many people give too much importance to holding onto what is important to you and although that is true, I want to focus on the fact that sometimes it is okay to LET GO. A lot of the time the hardest thing to do is to walk away from a situation that doesn't serve you anymore. We get too comfortable with the routine of life.
By The Graceful Truth8 years ago in Humans
