humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
How One Book Completely Changed My Life
I woke up with a start; I was having a horrbile nightmare. I could feel that my pajamas were soaked, I was sweating like a pig. I could still see those scary red flashing eyes from the demon in my dream, my stomach was quesy and my hands were shaking uncontrolablly.
By Heart Centered Universe5 years ago in Humans
Divine Timing
The music through my headphones was placed at the perfect volume just low enough to hear the world going on around me as background noise. Both sounds leveled me to a vibration where I was not too focused on either of the noises. I took a seat at what was a miracle of the only empty and available table at the busiest coffee shop right in the heart of town. I looked around and embraced the peacefulness that I was creating within myself and let the cool breeze flutter through my hair as I tried to find some inspiration from the life happening around me. Nothing was screaming any of the answers towards me, so I decided to go down memory lane instead. I pulled out a little black book from my bag and started flipping through the pages. It was an old journal I used throughout the years of my childhood scribbling notes and random nonsense and jotting down periodic bursts of writing ideas that I had hoped to go back and finish but never did. I read all the way up until the very end and that is where I found myself most intrigued by what it read. At first, I thought I was reading an old diary entry but then I realized otherwise. I kept reading and fell into it’s world as it pulled me in and started to read to me this: “I talk about things I can’t really remember, and I think about things that I don’t know how to say, and I feel things all while not understanding where they’re coming from. Everything inside of me just somehow seems so…. Off? There is a million words I can choose from to describe what I am saying in a way that you can comprehend, yet it is something I’ve yet to understand. It is a kind of knowing that you have inside of you, whether it be good or bad. And somehow, you have just accepted it, no questions asked. It is like somehow you started believing in something and the knowing of your thoughts do not scare you anymore. A fullness inside you starts to give you this kind of trust in the universe that somehow feels like it is all in your hands and in your control. You start to feel like your apart of it, like it is you, and you realize that that cannot be taken away from you. You become a true believer in all things you and everything around you starts to become only in favor for you.
By Eilene Quinonez5 years ago in Humans
Adira's Destiny
February 2015 Adira sits in silence as the computer screen lights up her face in the dark room, asking her-self the question that seems to be so repetitive in her mind lately, “did I make a mistake?” She had just submitted her monthly student loan payment. Graduation was only two years ago, but the amount of stress she has been under, primarily due to debt, is far more than she imagined possible. Adira has also recently made an extremely difficult decision to leave her position as a Physical Therapist Assistant. It was not that the job did not pay well, or she did not enjoy it, but rather a situation she never expected herself to be in. The doctor that she worked under persistently spoke to her in an unwanted sexual manner. At first, Adira was very thrown off by this and did not know exactly what to do. She knew that allowing it to continue was not an option. Adira always took pride in how she carried herself. She decided the next day that he made a disrespectful remark she would quit on the spot and walk away.
By Joseph Grisafe5 years ago in Humans
Little Black Book
Dev walked down the street, kicking at tin that stubbornly refused to move out of his way. He felt the frustration of the day, the week, the year, building up inside him and he almost screamed. The jewellers was going under, he’d wagered its future on a big summer of sales that had never come and now no bank would loan him the money to continue. He didn’t blame them. He was a loser, and he had lost.
By Jon Gracey5 years ago in Humans
A New Beginning
This Christmas Eve was just like any other: the snow didn’t show, but Uncle Jack Daniels sure did. After too many drinks, they all gathered in the living room and sat on the carpet for their traditional game of white elephant. This was always the precursor for whatever charade of pointing fingers would occur over dessert. It was one of the reasons the holidays always left a bitter taste in Ellie’s mouth-- not that the Jack Daniels helped.
By Carole Hodorowicz5 years ago in Humans
For Claudine
Mrs Mulberry was the neighbour that nobody liked. She was overbearing and obtrusive but nobody could do anything about it. She had lived in the building longer than everybody else and made sure that everybody knew about it. On her first weekend in her new apartment, Charlotte Brigham was enjoying her morning read on her balcony. It was a warm Sunday morning in May when she felt sprinkles of water dropping down on her. Looking up, she found Mrs Mulberry watering her trailing begonias, utterly oblivious to her newest neighbour inches beneath her. Charlotte couldn’t help but laugh.
By George Fairclough5 years ago in Humans
