friendship
C.S Lewis got it right: friendship is born when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
To the Woman Who Inspired Me to Write
I have written this letter before. Not to you of course, but to my mother. Back when I was younger and in elementary school, we had a lesson about writing about our heroes. All those years ago, I had written about my mother and grandmother because of their generosity and volunteering. Those two women inspire me still, they really do. Back then, my mother and grandmother were the most inspirational people I knew. Now with a different set of lenses on my life, I see the truth. My mother hated the way I used to scribble on looseleaf, dreaming up short stories in my head. She never encouraged me to write. She never pushed me towards my own goals and dreams, which is something I can forgive her for. I used to spend so much time making lists of character names and creating elaborate backstories for them when I was a child. My grandmother used to pay me in books for working for her all those years ago. Back then it was them who inspired me but truthfully, there is no woman out there that inspires me quite as much as you do.
By Chloe Rose Violet š¹4 years ago in Humans
Are We Obligated to Cherish Friendships for Old Times'Ā Sake?. Top Story - January 2022.
Separation is an inseparable part of every spiritual transformation. Your soul's purpose no longer resonates with the old world, old perceptions and old acquaintances. People leave.
By Katarzyna Portka4 years ago in Humans
You Are My Sunshine
Although we lived in the same street, I didnāt know the elderly Dutch lady who was currently fighting to pull up the stubborn weeds taking over her front garden on a blistering hot summerās day, but I squatted beside her and began to help. What neither of us knew, was that we were both very hard of hearing, and, twenty minutes later, as she thanked me and invited me to join her for coffee, I simply smiled, picked up the bag of garden rubbish and bade her farewell. I hadnāt heard her invitation.
By Alex Frederickson4 years ago in Humans
Iām not like them
People have all the audacity in social media these days. I honestly think about deleting everything once in a while. I have deleted my Facebook because I really find no reason to have it anymore. When I was using it everyday, it was because I was trying to make the MLM thing work and I had to āsocializeā and basically be someone that I really wasnāt. I noticed that people who join these MLM companies become clones who the people they are working under. They want you to stager coat things, lie to people and mask the true person that you really are. It bullshit if you ask me. I needed up having over 2,000 āfriendsā but most of the people that were on my list were basically trying to do the same thing that I was, trying to get someone to buy their products. Of course there were companies that were competing against either other and nobody wanted to buy anything because all they wanted to do was recruit more people who didnāt have a backbone. I joined a lot of different companies and always realized that once you were in the inside, it wasnāt all it was cracked up to be. I ended up putting thousands of dollars into it and not breaking even. I believe that the people that claim they make money from it are just people who are good at lying to people and good at making another clone basically. Most of the products that I bought never worked. Then there are the people on TikTok that feel the need to hide behind their screen and type a bunch of craziness. Every time I scroll on that app, there is someone degrading and disrespecting someone that they donāt even know. There is so much hate on the internet and I believe that if the person weāre face to face, they wouldnāt say have the things that they do on the internet. A lot of the time the person isnāt usin their real name and they donāt have a picture of themselves and they donāt have any videos. Itās just a bunch of people feeling miserable in their own existence so they go out of their way to make someone else feel bad. This is why I have my comments turned off, nobody can duet me and most of the time I donāt use hashtags. Either you like my video or you donāt and I really donāt care what you have to say about it. Itās another thing when people go out of their way to screen record someoneās video just to make fun of them or talk crap about them. What is this world coming to??? Why are people so fixated on what other people are doing and, how they live their life, what they eat or donāt eat, how fat or skinny someone is, who they are dating and so many other things that is none of their business. I understand that people sharing their life in the internet is grounds for people see a little bit into their life but that doesnāt give them the right to be disgusting. What is so hard about scrolling past something that you donāt like? I do it all the time. I even block people if their stupidity keeps popping up in my feed. I like some of the content on tiktok because itās entertaining. The cooking videos, the comedy skits, the dancing and the videos teaching people how to do things. Sometimes even the people portraying themselves as good irritate me because I can always see through the crap they are speakingā¦but I keep my thoughts to myself. I can tell people are on there to become famous or just want some attention. Thatās not me though. Iām just there to release some stress and laugh as much as I can. I donāt have friends and I hang out with my children. My neighbors are all older than me with the exception of the house closest to me. I have NOTHING in common with them. They are disrespectful and super ghetto with the loud music, dirty yard and dogs tied up in their front and back yard which they never feed, When the wind blows it smells like a kennel that has never been cleaned. Not to mention they have parties in their yard and drop their beer bottles and trash in my yard. I canāt stand having neighbors that are very inconsiderate to the fact I work from home and they are always blasting their music. They have constant traffic to and from their home and it makes me so uncomfortable. Iām just going to continue to stay to myself because the energy of the majority of people today is not for me.
By Ruby Moonstone4 years ago in Humans
Young Adulthood: Somewhere between learning profound life lessons and crazy
December 31, 2021. It's 11:45 pm; it's been a crazy couple of days. And there are only 15 minutes left of 2021. I'm at a conference in Kentucky with my church's young adult group. We've changed our name so many times at this point, I don't know what we are.
By Jessica Freeborn4 years ago in Humans
Can a Friendship LastĀ Forever?
What does it mean to have a lifelong friend? I have been wondering what it means to have a good lifelong friend for a while now. Is a good lifelong friend someone we rely on if things go wrong? Do they step in and make everything better? Can you have fun with them?
By Denise Larkin4 years ago in Humans
