humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
Nothing Is Impossible
For 11 years I have been thinking that you are an abnormal person. How can such a person be good in this world? I thought such a thought would separate you from everyone and you would regret it but the fact is that today I have been regretting myself and you seem to me to be a very successful person. A woman who persevered in her decision and action and became successful in these circumstances today.
By Mohammad Arif5 years ago in Humans
Writing Letters to Strangers. Top Story - August 2021.
Today I left a letter in a park for a stranger to find. It was typed on a single sheet of paper with a typewriter. It was spritzed with one of my favourite perfumes and tucked in an envelope, read me inscribed on the front.
By Lauren Elise5 years ago in Humans
The Truth of Being a Survivor
A few weeks ago my older brother recommended for me to start a writing project- which would be writing something small to myself every day in a journal, something good to focus on every day. While I was doing this, I came across many things which helped define the difference between acting like a victim and being a survivor. After my last article and a long late-night conversation with one of my girlfriends, I have come to the realization of what it means to be a survivor. It's more than the physical scars which heal, but still haunt us. They include the mental, emotional, and psychological scars which slowly heal also, but are just as haunting at times. Being a survivor means the struggle is in the moment. This week has been a good week and a reminder that being a survivor doesn't mean that every moment of every day is hard, but simply that there ARE moments when it is hard. In these moments, it throws you back into the memory of what happened, and you see it not like a memory but a distorted version of movie clips, and with it the emotions that occurred at that moment. You feel them again as if it's happening in the present. The important thing when this occurs is to tell yourself that it's not the present, but it WAS the past. For 6 years I have not had my oldest son living with me and when I lost temporary custody of him, I truly felt like part of me was dying and mourning for him. It has been 6 years and in all that time, I found comfort in the idea that he was at least safe with his dad and was spared the emotional, psychological, and mental trauma and abuse that we endured and survived. Tonight my heart is absolutely breaking for my son at the realization this has never been the case and he too is a survivor just like us. The pain a mother feels is not one that is easily consolable or erased. As mothers, we feel it deep in our heart and soul. It is a raw, unnerving pain disguised as a monster who is there to hurt us, ripping its way from the inside out. If we do not fight, that monster will win. If we do not talk about our pain, that monster wins. Tonight is one of the moments when it is hard and painful, but only for this moment. I know when I wake up in the morning, I will have made it through the night, I will have made it through this moment and survived. Being a survivor is a constant battle and an exhausting one at that. Some weeks the triggers and the pain can be overwhelming, while others are on a smaller scale and are easier to get through, remind yourself to breathe and find your way out of the darkness. For that is all it is: a battle being fought with a monster in the dark, and every day that we wake up we have successfully stood our ground and told that monster: "No more, I will not let you pass."
By marion scott5 years ago in Humans
After the fire is gone
Love is where you find it is how this song starts out. They follow up with after the fire is gone. Conway and Loretta were one of the best duets in country music during the 1970's. No one can tell a story like they can. But what is it that they are doing in this song? One answer, cheating. But what causes one spouse to step out on the other one? What is the reason for so many divorces? There are many but infidelity is one of them.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee5 years ago in Humans
Be Kind or Else!
It’s time to let the world know; be kind! OR... there is actually no other option than that. I mean morally speaking there could never be another acceptable fact other than being kind at all possible points in ones life. Tragically speaking many people view politeness as an act of being fake. But it’s really an act of showing gratitude and protecting the peace rather than creating war. In my mind creating war has no purpose other than basically asking to be punished. Whether the repercussions includes intensified mental illness or maybe your physical health gets attacked from wanting to do evil or cause bad happenings. Why must more war be created when this place is supposed to be strung out on love rather than being destroyed by the bad stuff? It will never make sense to me on how why so many people invent these pestering matters and don’t succeed at holding onto their peace or whatever positive aspect they withhold without having to be fully there. By that I mean the things subconsciously and consciously being brought forward are just a matter of the simple truth.
By Keanna Barry 5 years ago in Humans
A Mass Destruction of Self Improvement
To build and then understand the depths of what we have created will always be something I approach with caution. To build would mean that we have to design or mentally come in contact with our ideas and bring them to life. Then on to understand the depths either means to sit back and let automatic thinking control your opinion or just understand to the limits of why creations still need courtesy and to be shared. It’s a strange idea well more so a fact that is also an idea; that we ignore the ways of the world and shun the attempts of those trying to create a safe place for us all. We should not be doing things like that. Shunning the safe attempts of bringing forward peace and other beautiful things that would make daily living in society a way a much more better concept of involvement. These beautiful things have no agenda nor no sense of urgency where they may have a “you must pay me back” type of reaction or response. These beautiful happenings are hiding behind the cure to global issues.
By Keanna Barry 5 years ago in Humans
Ready to Stay: A national initiative to defend the rights of migrants
The Democratic government has been working hard together with non-governmental organizations to carry out a survey on the situation of migrants to help carry out the promised and necessary immigration reform. However, the obstacles are not few, which is why the help and work of non-governmental and non-profit organizations are absolutely vital to guarantee the rights of migrants.
By BertGoodwill5 years ago in Humans
A Lost Example
The amount of times I’ve destroyed my attempts of writing a novel is out of my control. Why must I feel useless to the matter? Why must fear overrule my entire existence and conquer me to the point I give up ever so often? Ever so often and any time at all? It’s slowly angering me and I’m not one to be angry. But this ones for the books and I shall prophesize the issue that my attempts of trying to make the world a better place is my lost example. It’s been lost and in a sad way many don’t even care to help me find it back. I want to continue being an example maybe not to the larger scale of being that person towards the entire world but for myself I am trying my hardest to at least do something for those I can reach out to or for those that are aware of my content.
By Keanna Barry 5 years ago in Humans
