breakups
When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.
Painting Over You
Not everyone is sentimental, not everyone displays emotions in the same way. When I was young, I was good at bottling up emotions. I easily went months if not years without crying, or showing anyone how upset I may have been. While I don't think it was a healthy way to deal with emotions, I was young. It had this idea that tough people didn't cry. I wanted to be tough. It wasn't until later in life that I realized the comfort of a good crying session, or how malleable our emotions can be.
By Madison McDonald5 years ago in Humans
Second guessing will bite you in the ass
you can never really know what someone is thinking about you or anyone else can you? This can be a good thing or it can turn into a bad thing. some people have really strong intuition about other people. I just so happen to be one of those people. Usually I can tell what someone is actually thinking or feeling about me. I’ve been told that I need to listen to what first comes to my mind about someone or something. And and that I need to stop second guessing my first thought that comes into my head. I’ve always had an easy time figuring out what someone is about. Except for when it comes to relationships. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to see that person isn’t as great as I want them to be. But, I need to stop doing this. Usually, I can always pick up on when something’s not right withsomeone. People have always found it easy to talk to me about really anything. I think that could be because I can actually really feel for someone and their situation. With most people it’s easy for me to pick up on how they're actually feeling even if they're not saying it. I can usually tell what someone’s upset about before they actually tell me what it is that they’re upset about. Maybe that’s because I wear my heart on my sleeve, maybe it’s because I’ve been through quite a lot myself, maybe it’s because I’m down to earth and can just really feel for someone situation and for them, or maybe it really is because I do have super freaky good intuition. But, whatever the reason, it’s always seemed to be a good thing and helped me. I just need to learn to trust my first thought about someone, something, or The situation. I need to stop second guessing my first thought about these things. Because every time I don’t trust it that’s when I realized that I should have that’s when I realized I need to just listen to myself. Most of the time I don’t listen to myself that initial Oh yeah don’t do that don’t do this that it’s not a good person. And that’s when it bites me in the ass. But, every time I have listened to that little intuition voice in my head, it's turned out to be true and a good thing that I did listen to myself. Now when I don’t, it does turn out to be a bad decision, for example my ex of four years. My ex of four years, used me and abused me and somehow got me to stay with him for four years. He made me think I’m not good enough, no one could ever want to be around me, because I’m just so damn annoying, he made me feel like I’m not good enough, like I’m ugly on the inside and the outside. And none of those things are true, that's not just me saying that that's other people saying it as well without me asking them. But, even with people telling me that I’m not those things and whatever else, I still feel like I am. I never would of had to go through any of that, or what I’m going through now, if I would have just trusted my intuition my gut feeling and not wrote it off is just I don’t know… Me being insecure like always… So now, since I couldn’t trust that initial gut feeling about him I’m left with extreme insecurity about the way I look, about being annoying to other people, that I’m not smart enough, that I’m not good enoug, and that I never will be. I hope, that this goes away someday soon, even though I’m left with all this insecurity about myself. The one good thing to come from all of that, is that I learned to trust that initial thought about someone or something that intuition about the situation the person, because it turns out that it's always right. So now I know that it's not just me being paranoid or silly or whatever, now I know that I need to trust it that I can. That way I never go through something like that ever again.
By Janessa Starr5 years ago in Humans
Waking Up to a World on Fire
The following story is a personal journey of pulling back the curtains on my life that happened as a result of stay at home orders, extra time and the explosion of civil unrest. I’m sharing this as a voice to others that I know have experienced similar if not the exact same things in the last few months. Know you are not alone.
By Lisa "Eevie" Ford5 years ago in Humans
Have Mercy on My Heart
Josh walked to his door, pulling a shirt on over his pajama pants. He had a sick feeling that he knew who this was and he wasn’t looking forward to opening the door at this time of night and having to face this again. It wasn’t the first time, and he wished beyond anything that it would be the last. All it ever did was reopen the wounds that he was trying so desperately to heal. He opened the door and there she stood, and his heart stopped. He still loved her, with every ounce of who he was, he loved this girl.
By Kaaryn Stowell5 years ago in Humans
Friendly Heartbreak
Everybody knows about heartbreak. Whether it's a breakup or losing a loved one, or whether its the letter of rejection you received after longing for this job, this school, or this home for so long. I find that one of the most underrated "heartbreak situation" is when you lose a friend.
By Chelsea Doe5 years ago in Humans
