humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
What color is purple?
No one has ever asked me why The Color Purple is my favorite movie, so I honestly never thought to think about why. Ms. Celie had a story to tell, not that anyone would listen. All throughout the movie, the only person that she spoke to was God. She went through so much heartbreak and heartache; she cried countless tears and moaned and groaned to herself more times than I could count. The one time where she did find the nerve to speak up; not even for herself but to advocate for someone else who was in pain, a display of altruism; she quickly learned never to do so again. She was talked about, abused, shamed, lied on, cast out, used, mistreated, and left out to dry. Everything that could have or would ever mean something to her was taken away, time and time again. She spent the entire movie in a constant state of grief, with no real way to do so; just expected to pick up and keep going. Taking a backseat to her kid sister, who most saw as prettier and preferred to be associated with. She possessed an arrogant level of strength which people immediately sought to beat out of her by any means necessary in order to keep that strength and selfishly harness something that they could never attain; always wished but never could be. She longed for someone to notice her, longed for somewhere to be; maybe call home. She desperately needed to be noticed for much more than what everyone else thought to see her worth. Her opinion was asked, then ignored, her useful advice laughed at and turned away from leaving her to clean up the mess and rebuild from scratch what had been ruined. She spent most of her time alone, yet constantly taking care of everyone else. She was unnoticed, yet at every single beck and call, her advice was seeked, yet untaken and opposites chosen, she was misunderstood, yet her forced position was that of which, someone born deaf, dumb, and blind could easily perceive.
By Chelsie Stevens4 years ago in Humans
Forgiving my Father
Like many others my father was not always the father I needed him to be, but the Lord has been taking me down road that are leading me to forgive him. Not just for my Father's sake, but for mine. Jesus says in Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you." Unforgiveness also plants roots of bitterness that hurt no one but myself.
By Mary Jimenez4 years ago in Humans
How to Get Someone to Tell You a Secret
How to Get Someone to Tell You a Secret? Many humans have secrets and techniques or matters approximately themselves they don’t need others to know. Those secrets and techniques may be something as easy as they have got a brand new task to greater severe subjects which include divorce. But getting a person to inform you of their mystery may be difficult. If you need a person to divulge the heart's contents to you, constructing acceptance as true and displaying that you may maintain secrets and techniques may also get them to inform you of the mystery.
By Global News Hubs4 years ago in Humans
Radical Simplicity: Gandhi’s Cure For Industrial Civilization
I do not believe that multiplication of wants and machinery contrived to supply them is taking the world a single step nearer its goal… I whole-heartedly detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time, to increase animal appetites and go to the ends of the earth in search of their satisfaction. If modern civilization stands for all this, and I have understood it to do so, I call it Satanic.
By George Ochsenfeld4 years ago in Humans
The Need For Gentleness
The In the world we live in, there is a lot of aggression and violence. We read about wars, fighting, shootings and various murders. It seems apparent that something is underlying all of these atrocities and it is the acceptance of violence and aggression as a way to deal with life’s problems.
By Aisha Mohammad4 years ago in Humans
