humanity

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

When the Heart Speaks
There are moments when the heart speaks, but we are torn between whether or not we should listen. The challenge is to listen and accept that the universe is speaking to you, even though the reasons may be unclear. Such an event happened to me.
By Ron Tyson5 years ago in Humans
1850
London, November 15th, 1850; Abby awoke late again, to a chilly damp, foggy dark grey November in ol’ London. The cold! The never-ending bone-chilling cold, it possessed her very soul!
By Toni Cooper5 years ago in Humans
The Obsessed and the Obsession
This fusion of change and adaptation I cannot hide. These feeling that swirl around in your head makes the mind go wild. Some moments cloud your brain and it can feel like it’s the only thing in your life that brings you joy. You obsess over the ideas of what if but instead of seeing a future with what could be, you become someone that craves the idea of wanting and chasing.
By The Kind Quill5 years ago in Humans
Ups & Downs become Lefts & Rights (I).
Here I am: I’m breathing. I’m happy. I feel sexually satisfied. 24 hours ago, it wasn’t so... I had trouble breathing, I was very cranky and I was horngry ( Niche term describing a general feeling of unsatisfaction, could be a lack of sex or a lack of food but you’re not sure and you’re too irritated to figure out which one it is).
By Paul Meribe 5 years ago in Humans
Tea Time
It’s Friday morning at 3am. I woke about two hours ago from a dream that I was riding in the back of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Another passenger watched impassively as a large wasp was trying to sting me. I swatted at the buzzing insect, in the dark, with a hat. When I woke, by heart was beating double-time. Isn’t a wasp dream supposed to mean something? How about when it’s combined with the military images that usually appear in my dreams? Have I just revealed some terrible truth about myself?
By Steven Thomas Howell5 years ago in Humans
My First Online Transaction Was A One Month Long Adventure
This was the first online transaction I was doing in my life. A Facebook ad link took me to this website with an amazing offer. I went ahead with the purchase. But that was just the beginning of the story that followed.
By Kavi Kamat5 years ago in Humans
It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I (will) feel fine)
There is a sense of hope moving out of this particular winter towards spring, from illness and painful loss, from suffering to relief. From quarantine and social distance to shots in arms and to schools and workplaces reopening. A new year, a new season, this spring, feels like a chance to heal. It is a time to look forward with cautious optimism and gratitude for the blessings we do hold. But, a year into the pandemic, it is hard to imagine what life was like before. In retrospect, it feels somehow like the pandemic was inevitable in a way. Like we should have known this was bound to happen, all the doom and the gloom that we all have been living through. No matter one's personal politics and specific sense of exactly what is wrong with the status quo, why is so easy for us as humans, to suspect that the world is falling apart? That the sky is falling?
By Catherine Dorum5 years ago in Humans
Money, here today, gone tomorrow
I've always tried to be efficient in whatever I am doing; and it turns out even doing my online shopping, that is so. I have done shopping online for various products from essential oils to corporate tax programs. Most of these were items I searched out myself though and only bought what I went in search for, so I didn't think these were a problem.
By Yvette McDermott5 years ago in Humans
Who’s/Who’re Broken Wings?
Who’s/Who’re Broken Wings? It’s been a long seven years since he felt the love of a good woman. Seven years living alone manoeuvering the life of a widower. He thought he was doing just fine, but not one of his male friends believed the words he repeatedly spoke. For the last two years, his buddies’ wives often surprised him with blind dates at dinner parties, causing his anxiety to rise and the sweat to roll.
By Monica Spurrell5 years ago in Humans
Being Painted
Being painted wasn’t what she had expected. She exhales deeply and surrenders to the sensations as he paints her. They had been dating for six months before Josh confessed that he had always wanted to be a painter.
By Shawn Ingram5 years ago in Humans
"It Is Past Your Bedtime, Sir"
The sounds of "Tick Tock" reminded us that time is always ticking and never stopping unless of course, your batteries run out. There are five clocks in my home and in each of them, you can hear the ticking sound. We look at them for the time we wake up and when we go to sleep, I honestly look at the clock whenever it's time to eat or when it's time to go to bed. Forgive me if this bores you, but I find this interesting because I consider myself an interesting weird character. We look at our clocks or in our phones for everything. Time won't stop for anyone, sorry folks, but it is the truth. I remember reading the clock in the sixth period waiting for the hand to strike at 3:00 pm when school was out and was officially tired after eight hours of learning and thinking when lunch will start. You think I'm nuts for writing about clocks and I don't mind being called that. I even dressed as a clock for Halloween when I was six years old and I've been curious about clocks since then. Just kidding about that I definitely won't wear a clock for a Halloween costume that is just plain silly. Do you get annoyed by the ticking sound? Not really? Did you know that the Pendulum clock was up until the 1930s as the world's most precise timekeeper? You probably aren't familiar with the inventor of the pendulum clock. It's quite a genius invention created by Christiaan Huygens. He was born in a time where people accused others of witchcraft. The time in which women were fully clothed and chamber pots were the toilets that seem so disgusting to have in the house for a while until it's time to dump it elsewhere. My apologies if I went off-topic for a second, I thought of writing something from the Renaissance Era considering how times were different back then. Thanks to the clocks of the present day, I can remember what time is the wedding rehearsal of my older cranky sister or be on time for the most important day of life, and I don't mean birth or date but my future job depending on the interview. Time is consistent as we know and we often don't take advantage of the time we get in this world. Do you use your time wisely, like playing with your kids or hang out with your friends or even have the time to cook dinner for a family of eight? Huygens's idea of the pendulum clock was inspired by the works of Galileo Galilei, the father of modern science or probably known as the crazy madman who the church wasn't pleased with his work on astronomy. Those clocks were quite popular until the 20th century when newer clocks were coming and life as we know it was constantly changing as each century passed. Amazingly, we depend on something so small for our daily life uses. You might know this or not, but the earliest form of clocks was known as sundials. They were devices that will tell the time of the day by sunlight and shadows. These devices were often used in ancient times and I often wonder or maybe out of curiosity how did ancient people live without clocks or did they have clocks? If you ask me it makes perfect sense because we have the sun and moon, the light appears in the morning and at night the darkness replaces the light and eventually goes away and the light appears again. The process itself repeats over and over like a clock that keeps ticking and ticking. Time is crucial when we don't use it properly and days become weeks and weeks become months. You get the idea and now I check my clock and it seems to me that I'm late for a movie night with my friends.
By Myra 5 years ago in Humans
Good Deeds: Boy on the Balcony
Is it true that guardian angels track steps through this world? Are there holy beings watching over us, trying to keep us out of trouble? Shining up at the right moment or just in the nick or time. Maybe and maybe not.
By Brandon Vermeer5 years ago in Humans