humanity

For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.

Life After Birth
Life after 59. Moving and grooving in Midlife is teaching me lesson. At age 50 I realized that all those many years of working have brought many blessings. The most happiness is a moment was the moment I was giving birth and seeing the smile of my child’s face. I got up so quickly after giving birth and my baby girl the cutest on the planet. I was so scared I would drop her. I was moving very quickly. Then suddenly a swift breeze can through the hospital window. Was I dreaming or did my little angel fly?
By Wanda B Henry5 years ago in Humans
Mental Health or Neurotype?
Well, that sounds very heavy, doesn't it? But here lately I've seen a number of people attempting to excuse famous (rich, white, and (usually) male) people for their racism or transphobia or general assholery on the grounds that they are (probably) autistic or traumatized and essentially saying "they can't help it, the poor dears; it's a mental health issue."
By Jenn Kirkland5 years ago in Humans
Surviving the Storm
On March 31, 2021, my life changed with one TikTok video. The date happened to be my 9th wedding anniversary, and I had had enough of my marriage. The night before I made the video, I had a moment where it felt like a light switch had flipped in my brain and I was DONE in every single way. I had no more emotions, no more fear, and no further expectations of remedying the relationship.
By A.M. Harte5 years ago in Humans
Are You Judgy?
You know when you meet someone, and you can't help but make mental notes. Or someone catches you giving them the stink-eye when they're doing something questionable.
By Erin King5 years ago in Humans
Why I Was Skinny Until I Was 30
After recently talking to various people in my life, it would seem that every generation has their own take on lunch time at school. What should be a 30 minute period of relaxation and rejuvenation, is just the opposite for many students, then and now. My mother-in-law shared that she was too worried about her girlish figure to eat lunch at school (sometime around 1960). My wife shared that she was always anxious when checking out at the cashier in the lunch line because her father, the school superintendent, paid in advance for her lunch (early 90's). She worried it would be perceived that she was getting a free lunch. A friend of the family shared a story of one of her students having their lunch thrown away because they had an unpaid lunch tab (2019). She did promptly rectify this situation and the child did eventually get their lunch that day, but the stress that must have caused that child! My sister, who is 16 years my senior, said she would throw her lunch away because she was often sent with tuna and egg salad, and it smelled so bad she would get teased by the other kids. Not being teased was more important than eating lunch.
By CeCe5 years ago in Humans
Why are humans never content?
The statement “why are humans never content?” is looking ahead a lot of reasons. Contentment, satisfaction, and fulfilment are words that seem to remain fugitive to us, regardless of how well we do in our life.
By Iqra Mukhtar5 years ago in Humans
Dariah’s Blooms Day Diary
April 15th 2215 I have finally decided that today is the day I open the journal Grandma Poppy gifted me for my birthday last year. I was too distracted with archery, gardening classes and pottery workshops that I didn’t make much space to go inward and reflect. At times I would surrender to my introspective habits and climb up to the highest of the strongest branches of the eucalyptus and rest my head on her smooth bark, letting my worries dissolve with every breath we shared. The tree would breathe in with me and exhale when I exhaled. Without any verbal communication from the softness of my lips, she was listening to my inner world. She can hear my thoughts you know? She’s a wise old tree full of considerate memory and gentle forgiveness. My thoughts would tenderly seep through the tissue of my brain and the thick of my skull into her tall trunk. We would share our stories in silent conversation. Listening to each other breathe was soothing. My thoughts would grow quieter the more I listened to her leaves dancing with one another in the wind. I went to her the day my grandmother died.
By Nirah Celeste5 years ago in Humans
Life after death.
As a child, I used to enjoy reading stories from different cultures around the world and especially the ones to do with mythological creatures and heroes. Greek mythology in particular, has always held special fascination. The amazing travels of Jason and the Argonauts, Zeus in Mount Olympus, Hades and the Titans, etc., etc. I never for once thought that any of these tales had any bearings on real life a story as we know it.
By Jodam Allingam 5 years ago in Humans
The 3W of life
Life is a stage and every one of us are actors on this stage. There's an entrance and also an exit into this stage of life, but between the entrance and the exit, a lot of things happened which define who a person truly is. There are three questions that everyone must ask himself or herself so to make the best out of life. These questions are fundamental to the existence and consummation of human life. These questions are what I refer to as the 3W of life. These questions spanned the entire life of a man, from the day of his birth to the day of his departure from this human planet. They are questions that awaken the subconscious mind to the acceptance of the realities of this life.
By Felix Osezua5 years ago in Humans
Fairy friend
Last May, I met Camilla. It was the height of the shutdown and one of the most uncertain times the world has seen. I met Camilla through her mother, someone who has worked for me and my family for many years. One day, she brought her daughter to work, not knowing I would be there. Though her mother was apologetic and embarrassed, Camilla was thrilled to be with my 6 month old puppy, in a place other than her home. For the first time in weeks, social distancing seemed but a distant memory.
By Lynne Calabrese5 years ago in Humans
Crafting a Time Travel Mart Mural
Crafting a Time Travel Mart Mural a time lapsed interactive creation One of my favorite recent projects was creating a photo opportunity/interactive collage mural out of recycled materials for the Mar Vista Time Travel Mart grand reopening.
By Teresa Shea5 years ago in Humans
The Key to Happiness 🔑
When I was 10, my family moved from San Diego to a small town in Ohio. It took us 7 days, and it quite literally felt as if we were moving across the entire United States. It seemed like a very long way from what I knew as my home in San Diego, where I was born.
By Ashley Daglio5 years ago in Humans