humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
A Body Full of Pain
The scars they did fade eventually, this was true. She glanced down on the top of her forearm where a sliver of a scar used to be visible, almost white in color. Images of the stark white bathroom tile she sat on while sobbing through the noises just beyond the door crossed her mind. Her mother crying faintly, her father screaming ungodly and hurtful words in her face. He could be hurting her, she thought. He probably was. I should call the police, she thought. But she was always too afraid. Fear and anger clouded her thoughts. Anger that her mother allowed herself to be treated this way, fear for her mother, fear for herself. When her sobs calmed down long enough for her to open the sink cabinet from where she sat on the floor, she reached behind the box of tampons and pulled out a small paring knife. The blade was dull, the sharp tip had broken off years ago. Nobody has missed it for as long as it had been missing from the kitchen. This is where she did what she knew was wrong - what was painful in every way, yet as soon as it was over, her breathing had ceased to a normal rate, her tears only steady and few and far between, her sobs finally stopping completely. She sat leaning against the bathroom sink with her eyes closed for a few minutes before she cleaned up the mess. Wet toilet paper to wipe her skin, then balled up and stuffed it in the bottom of the trash can. The knife carefully ran under hot, running water and then quickly stashed back underneath, behind the box of tampons.
By Abbey Streett4 years ago in Humans
Narrower Perception of Ethics in present times. Is it affecting our ultimate happiness?
We are continuously striving for a 'good life'. Definition of it are many and different for each individual. Today we will focus on the aspects of the narrower perception of it in the present modern times, and will ask ourselves why it is indeed narrower and are a crisis for the ethical values and humankind.
By Miss LongLocks4 years ago in Humans
You Don't Wanna Be a Doctor
Anyone who finds themselves existing within the capitalist society that controls us today is aware of the obvious. Certain jobs make you money and others, simply, do not. There are outliers, like there is with anything, but the group of careers that seem most sophisticated (doctors, lawyers, dentists etc) are simply more stable. These people are also aware that studying to fill these positions of prestige, money, and respect is the smart and logical path to follow. Now when you decide to enter these fields every single person you meet, and I mean EVERY single one, will fall into one of these three categories.
By Ayla Ahmed4 years ago in Humans
Paradox
The summer was bullish. We offered our bar stools to couples in tight dresses, bodies pushing against each other underneath the purple flowers draped from the ceiling, pulsing pink, purple, red against the flashing lights. People were dancing, drinks sloshing over onto shining floors. Laughter punctuated the buzz of chatter. It smelled alive.
By Laura Street4 years ago in Humans
Living in Compression: Cocoon
I think we're told to be a ruffled dress. To stay at the age of 14. You know? There's a certain kind of lilac haze meant to keep little girls simply that, little. It isn't necessarily easy for anyone. Mom wants you to keep being the doll, the dress up, play with your hair, and dad wants to keep everything that flirts away from you forever, and ever, and ever.
By Andrea Lawrence4 years ago in Humans
