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I Had to Become Who I Needed When I Was Younger
I didn’t grow into this version of myself by accident. I didn’t wake up calm, confident, or sure of my worth. I didn’t learn to love myself because someone taught me how.
By arsalan ahmad2 months ago in Humans
Who Are You When You’re Alone With Yourself?
1. The Quiet That Stays After Everything Else Fades When the world finally goes quiet— when the phone stops buzzing, the city lights fade,
By Melanie2 months ago in Humans
Incentivized Abandonment
Marriage was once a covenant that joined two lives in responsibility and perseverance. It required sacrifice from both, patience from both, and accountability from both. Today, marriage has been redefined by culture and rewritten by law. The covenant has been reduced to a contract, and the contract now rewards abandonment more than endurance. People no longer ask what it takes to stay. They ask what they can gain by leaving.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
Taught to Expect, Not to Honor
Modern society has trained women to expect everything and to honor nothing. They are raised to know what they want but not to know what they owe. They are told to list their standards but never to build the strength required to meet someone else’s. The result is a generation fluent in demands but illiterate in duty. Love cannot survive when one side learns only to expect while the other learns only to give.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
The One-Way Street of Modern Love
Modern relationships were supposed to be built on equality, but what we call equality has become one-sided. Men are taught to give, to serve, to protect, and to love unconditionally. Women are taught to expect those things and to measure a man’s worth by how perfectly he provides them. Men are conditioned to earn love. Women are conditioned to receive it. The result is not partnership but imbalance—a one-way street where the traffic of sacrifice flows in only one direction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
The Story of Pharaoh and Prophet Musa (Moses) عليه السلام
In ancient times, in the land of Egypt, there lived a powerful ruler known as Pharaoh. He was the king of Egypt, and his kingdom was strong, wealthy, and full of grand buildings, monuments, and temples. The Nile River flowed through the land and brought life to the soil, allowing the people to grow crops and live in great comfort. But Pharaoh was not just a ruler; he was a very proud and arrogant man. He believed that no one was greater than him, and he demanded that people treat him as a god. He would say to the people, “I am your lord. I am the one who controls your life.” The people feared him greatly and obeyed him because they did not want to face his punishment.
By Emranullah2 months ago in Humans
Confessions of a Former Alcoholic Part 34
According to what I have said in the preceding parts, I am going to presume that I have shared everything with you, including the fact that I have changed my surname, met the church, and removed my family from my life.
By TheNaeth2 months ago in Humans
The Echo of the Hunt: A Narrative Essay. AI-Generated.
🎧 The Echo of the Hunt: A Testament of the Chasing Self The hunt began not in the wilderness, but deep within the soul. It was not the craving for sustenance, but a barren, aching void where peace once resided. My quarry was not flesh and blood; it was a Golden Opportunity, a shimmering phantom light promising the peak of fulfillment. I believed this prize was the final, gleaming lock that, once turned, would redeem every past shame and grant me the true spelling of my name.
By Ninejoe3 months ago in Humans
Fiction as Fast Fashion
Once upon a time, self-publishing was a wonderland. It was the promise that anyone who had a story could bring it to light. The dream was to wrench open the gates that were slammed shut by publishers. It was meant to give voice to those who were deemed “not enough” by the literary elites, not because of the quality of their voice and their writing, but because of their circumstances.
By Autumn Stew3 months ago in Humans
My Winter Ritual of Lights
See my garden. The garden is my ritual de la habitual all year long. I've been tending this garden since 2021. I absolutely love this garden and I love everything about gardening. Winter is no different to me than the other seasons. All four seasons are equal to me. In my garden, I pay homage to each season with different sections of my garden. I designed it that way from day one. Winter has its very own section, which I have shown you in the photograph above.
By Shanon Angermeyer Norman3 months ago in Humans
The Half-Finished Race
People often say that women mature faster than men. In one sense they do, but that advantage is temporary. If maturity were a marathon, women would sprint the first half and cross the midpoint far ahead. They would celebrate as if the race were over. Men would lag behind, slower at first, but they would keep running. They would finish the second half while many of the early sprinters stood still. That second half of the race, the one built on endurance, sacrifice, and humility, is where real adulthood begins.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
(Part 2) The Nature of Faithfulness: Why Men and Women Fail Differently and Love the Same
If the first truth of love is difference, the second is duty. What reason can describe, revelation can redeem. Part I examined the divided mind of desire through the lens of logic and biology. Part II turns to the deeper reality beneath them: pride. Every failure of love, whether male or female, begins in pride. Pride blinds the mind, corrupts the will, and destroys the capacity to sacrifice. It is the single force that can turn God’s design of complementarity into conflict.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans