humanity

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

The Suffering Rule Book
What are we actually allowed to do when we suffer? It's an odd question, isn't it? The reason it is odd is because, to my knowledge, there aren't seminars or textbooks about what determines a person's suffering as valid.
By Alicia Summers5 years ago in Humans
Enterprising or Sour Grapes
McAllister woke in a sour mood. His day, his week, hell his whole month hadn’t gone well. It seemed today wasn't going to be any different. It was annoying and decidedly unsatisfying. He wasn’t used to things going wrong going badly or going awry. It was beyond frustrating.
By Phyllis Holt5 years ago in Humans
What are human rights violations?
Once we fully appreciate what human rights are, we can understand what counts as a violation of them. We can, for example, turn to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, formulated in 1948, and read a whole list of rights of individuals that governments are urged not to violate.
By John Welford5 years ago in Humans
Battling Cancer
I wrote this in June, 2015. On April 30, 2021, on the eve of Melanoma Awareness Month, my personal nemesis, it’s worth a revisit. From the archives.
By David Louis Stanley5 years ago in Humans
The World Is Complicated
"I like to think I’m a pretty optimistic person. I’ve always tried to look on the bright side of any situation and work as hard as possible to see solutions to problems all the way through. I like the idea of being able to spread positive energy to those around me and alleviate my friend’s stress."
By Jamie Lammers5 years ago in Humans
Beyond the Break Lie My Broken Dreams
He paddles out of the calm marina into the dark open ocean chop that chills him despite his thick wet suit. His long board cuts cleanly through the water with each powerful stroke. Four hundred yards away a small red light atop a buoy bobs in time to the current. He pulls hard towards it. A typhoon south of Kyushu is pushing huge waves over the break, but he can’t see them in the early morning darkness yet. He can hear the roar though. Out to sea the horizon is just starting to turn blue.
By Steve B Howard5 years ago in Humans
The Naked Surf
Harvey stood on the cold winter beach in Northern California, white longboard pointing to the sky and bare ass pointing towards the bluff behind him. He watched the waves roll into the bay, breathed the air, noted how the wind passed his ears, absorbed the weak winter sunlight, and shifted the coarse sand between his toes. He also watched the violent vibrations running down the length of the brand new pier that sat in the bay as an ugly insult to the ocean. Large waves slammed into it and rolled onto the beach. Observations finished he entered the frigid water and began paddling out to the break.
By Steve B Howard5 years ago in Humans
What does mean India to me
Generally, we (Indians) never show our love and respect to our motherland India publicly. However, we show it through our social involvement. It is a kind of every Indian’s pride. Honestly speaking, we are very much emotional about our country’s pride. The reason is that we (Indians) are born emotional and for this reason, we never tolerate any unethical event at any cost. Moreover, we protest instantly any unethical happening through our freedom of choice or conviction whatever may be. Nevertheless, one thing is sure that we do it because we love our India.
By Manik Roy5 years ago in Humans
COMING OUT
Dear Journal, I finally decided to create a journal, a modern one at least, everything is so modern nowadays. You can just sit and type instead of writing, you can order in instead of cooking. You can even load the washer instead of scrubbing clothes with hands that one may be my favorite to be honest….. Let's call this my online journal. I'm not even sure I'll be good at this but I have always had a passion for writing it's my way of telling or expressing what's really going on inside and when an idea emerges I really can go on and on forever. How many of you are like this?.... Like me?........ I've always wondered if I would ever meet anyone that looks or think like me someday…... I have always met people who reminded me exactly of someone else but I have never met anyone else that is exactly like me. Is it odd that I may think I could find that?. Or is it that I'm too weird and no one is actually like me? mhm.....Well, I wasn't always like this you know. I remember when I was younger and happier. I remember going to the beach with my mom and dad, I remember all the cool toys I had but then all the fun disappeared from my life slowly over time. I guess that's a part of growing up or at least so I was told. I'm sorry I'm babbling again remember I told you I'm not sure ill be good at this that's what I meant by it. Quite an intro to my story, huh and most of you probably won't even have the slightest clue of what I'm going on about. Let's start over then.
By Jane Doe5 years ago in Humans
Eat, Drink, Be Merry
The club pulsated, jolting violently like it was on its 12th cup of coffee. Seizure inducing strobe lights, blaring, repetitive techno music, and a dance floor packed tighter than a world cup soccer stadium made the club feel alive. Alive, and pumped full of adrenaline. A misty cloud of sweat loomed above the vigorously dancing and drugged out moonlighters.
By Henry Shaw5 years ago in Humans
Fog Unplugged
Why did we keep doing this? Round and round and round, but we never hit the bullseye. In fact, we haven’t been “a couple” for months and I’m not sure why. We didn’t fight. There’s no big “problem’. We’ve been moving through the litany of our everyday life, leaving in the morning, seeing friends after work, returning to complete the circle at night, but we haven’t connected in a long time.
By AnnMarie Giglio5 years ago in Humans
Dancine In Light, Dancing in Love
A wisp of a woman she was. Tall, thin, frail. Frail? Hardly that. Dancine was strong, physically, emotionally, spiritually. She was and still is a child of the universe, timeless as light is forever. From a single spark she came. Billions of years she traveled to this pinpoint in space and time where she will shine in on for trillions of years to come; or go.
By David Zinke aka ZINK5 years ago in Humans