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!"
Great Tools are key!
In March 2020 just before the Covid pandemic changed the world as we know it I bought myself a brand new sewing machine and a new pair of Fiskars classic scissors -the long ones that cut fabric like a dream. It was an expensive purchase but one I thought would provide me a sorely needed creative outlet. I learned how to sew as a teen in home economics and from my grandmother who was a seamstress and had worked in a curtain factory to support her immigrant family.
By Lori Monaco 5 years ago in Humans
Bone Splinters and Booze Vapors
Old Zenard used to say, “Never throw a damn punch when your so tanked you’re seeing double, Too numb to feel the impact.” Should have taken his advice. Wouldn’t be using a rusty pair of needle nose to pry Burpie’s tooth out of my knuckles right now if I had. Didn’t even know I’d slugged him till I came to this morning.
By Steve B Howard5 years ago in Humans
Empathizing With The Enemy
The beginning of my shadow work journey started with a heavy hitter. The first challenge was to write a message to the person who hurt you the most and explain why you said what you said. I actually had a harder time than I expected on that part alone. Until I reached the second challenge, create a visual of how I see myself (which I did on my phone). After some thorough self evaluation around my own self image, as well as concluding who’d honestly hurt me the most and the reason why what they’d done hurt me to the extent that it did, I was able to come to this ultimate conclusion: We should all take the effort to empathize with our enemies before internalizing what made them an enemy, so then us as people can can have an easier time dealing with our own faults and forgiving ourselves for past mistakes. I was personally able to see comparison in areas where I felt I lack and how that affected my interactions, next to the actions of my said “enemies”. I could see where the behavior possibly rooted from. However I’m no psychologist, merely an observer and an analyst
By Kyntaurii LaKyn5 years ago in Humans
Man Talk: Part 2
(Continued from Part 1) .....“Hey, Spielberg.” A voice, darkened by early manhood, broke his creative trance. He turned around and saw “the Manukyan goons” as David and Paul called them, because they went to Manukyan - a private Pre-K -12 institution on the other side of town where the hardcore Circle folks whose parents had money went. Paul had gone there before he transferred to public school, where he met David, in third grade after it became clear to his mother and father that Manukyan’s shoebox environment left him gasping for breath. The students there wore plaid uniforms, studied in classrooms with posters of Mt. Ararat on every wall, and learned "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" along with their times tables. Girls were expected to be white lace and the boys were trained to be testosterone meteor showers, as the three that stood before him definitely were. The hulking, excessively hairy leader of the group, Sarkis, loomed over David, and his henchmen Kyle and Tigran stood on either side of the frightened boy.
By Sharisse Zeroonian5 years ago in Humans
Make Sense of Your Introverted Friend: 5 Mysterious Behaviors Explained
I outed myself as a bonafide introvert in a recent post on Medium and went on to describe how uncomfortable it is for me to stand in a circle of people I don’t know that well. While the ensuing comments revealed that many fellow introverts found the situation relatable, it made me wonder about how strange an introvert’s behaviors must seem if you’re an extrovert.
By Corrie Alexander5 years ago in Humans
The four friends. Top Story - May 2021.
Friends are an important part of our life, whether we are young, adolescent, adult or old. A life without friends is a life without fun, without happiness. And so finding right friends is very important. Normally we have fun-time friends- friends with whom we share fun times. We go to movies with them, we party out with them. We gossip with them, we discuss our crushes, our hates, our loves with them.
By Energyia Singh5 years ago in Humans
Man Talk: Part 1
David had always had an oil-and-water rapport with sleep, and it didn’t help that, despite being on the fifth floor of his respective tower of the Fontainebleau Hotel, he could hear cocaine heartbeats of techno all the way from the pool area outside his window. It was only eleven in the morning, but there seemed to be no wrong time for stereos to blast in this thin slice of Miami Beach. David found himself wondering how the place would be if the constant stream of music were to suddenly stop; surely, the air would become stoic and thirsty - sort of like how it was in his old neighborhood in one of the more forgotten parts of Santa Ana, where he spent his first eighteen years before moving to Los Angeles as people with delusions of making it in the film industry are wont to do. But he didn’t think about it any further; thinking about death and decay - or worse, feeling it - can take someone for the type of ride that he tried to avoid going on, even by himself. When David could feel himself drifting back into slumber, his phone screen lit up. It was Paul, his artistic partner-in-crime, already wanting to know tonight’s plans.
By Sharisse Zeroonian5 years ago in Humans
Thank you, give me an empty joy
Stranger, how have you been these past two days? The "autumn tiger" finally played its fierce strength, my city is so hot, people have to hide in the air conditioning room, no longer go out. The old air conditioner in the house stopped spinning yesterday morning, and the landlord was very helpful in getting someone to fix it, but it was too old to be repaired, and it took at least two days to buy a new one and install it again, which made me very distressed.
By Shuv.vyach5 years ago in Humans
