humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
My Everything
Shaai, I want to be as transparent with you at this moment, while I am comfortable doing so. Some things I will say, that is strictly my opinion. Some things I will say are coming from a place of pain & things I am still working on to move forward with. Some things I will reiterate because it still lingers with me. I don’t want you to take any of these as attacks to make you be defensive, nor I don’t want you to think the things I will say is to put you down. Which is why I am expressing that beforehand that I do say it, so you can better understand me and where I am coming from. I will understand if you disagree or agree with the things I will say. If something I say sounds out of line or makes you uncomfortable, I apologize beforehand, and in return please tell me so that I can fix it. If there is anything you would like to in response to after this letter. I would be more than welcome to read it and understand from your perspective and work on what it is that you find me lacking in or not doing.
By Trey Anderson5 years ago in Humans
Does A Lack Of Social Awareness Constitute Self-Centredness Or Narcissism?
I would say that this image represents me really well. When I have an idea that I have thought long and deep about, considering the multiple different perspectives and the nuances of the theses and the antitheses in my analysis to bring about a useful synthesis...
By Dr Joel Yong5 years ago in Humans
September 11th
I will never forget the day that defined my generation. I had just started the second grade and I was eating an Egg-O waffle while watching Spongebob Squarepants. Suddenly the channel changed on its own, I thought maybe I had accidentally sat on the control or something but then the news flashed on.
By Mae McCreery5 years ago in Humans
THE BULLY
EDITED I think that the saddest aspect of the Bully is that they are developmentally delayed in human growth. They have been frozen in time in aspects of their character and they can be triggered to regress with just the right word or action. The thing that may triggers a bully is simply an illusion embedded in the past that they allow to the surface. I am, perhaps, a bully when I am bullied. Having never owning that character out right, I have adopted the characteristics of a bully by mimicking their own action.
By Andrea Sturm5 years ago in Humans
Meaningful Ink
People don't realize that tattoos are more than just ink on the skin. They are symbols of strength, memories of courage, mementoes of a life worth living, and mausoleums to those we have lost. It is at equal times, beautiful getting tattooed and tortuous. It's not the physical pain that makes it torturous, it is the emotional release of pain that scars you more than the ink ever will. Sometimes, we need the pain to remind us that we are living.
By L.E. Harrison5 years ago in Humans
Fly on, little wing.
I got this tattoo when I was 22 years old. I had just had a child, and it was the day my husband said he wanted a divorce. I got married young, and it was for the wrong reasons. It was arranged marriage. He was very controlling, and bi polar disorder. When things started to get abusive things got rocky. I was on the verge of a melt down. I was thinking about the future: what will I do next? Where will I go? How will things be now? I remember when I was about 15 years old and I told my mother that I just discovered this guy, Jimi Hendrix, and I love the song “little wing.” She laughed Because she is a musician and knows all too well about Jimi. She said that I probably liked that song so much because she used to play and sing it everyday when she was pregnant with me. That day I knew that I had to get “fly on” from the song tattooed on me. I knew I was going to fly on for the rest of my life. The tattoo artists loved the idea. He took his time on it, the white outline as lasted all these years. The journey hasn’t been easy. After we separated, he went to prison. I had to provide for my daughter myself. Luckily with my mothers help with my baby, things were possible. I often worked two out even three jobs to provide. We have had many set back, but had always managed to make it. My mom has also always been an inspiration to me. Her life was not easy. Her parents passed away in her early twenties and she was lost. She also was with abusive men. She became a heroine addict, among other substances. She married my father in a contract marriage as well. There were three of us girls, one from a previous marriage and another with my father. My older sister passed at the age of nineteen, which was really hard on my mother. Her mental issues, such as schizophrenia, set in after that. Her marriage started to fail with my father. She was on her own again. It took her a long time to get it back together. After a stint back on drugs, and dealing with depression she finally was able to get on the right medication. This had taken years. She is now 65 and living a completely different life. She lives in the country. She a grandmother, and playing the roll well. She is so good with children. She hosted a summer camp and even got a grant to do it. She is appreciating life and taking care of herself. This inspires me to not let the negative take over. Use our wings to overcome. I am now a college student. I qualify for grants to help. And I work part time. My mother and father both went to college and they wanted that for me. Better late than never. And I want my daughter to look up to me to get a higher education as well. I am happily engaged now to a wonderful man who treats my daughter like his own. He takes us snowboarding, dirt bike riding, mountain biking, wake surfing, traveling and all kinds of adventures. We have a home that I love. And a dog that we adore. I never would have thought I would be here. And I never would gave thought my mom would be where she is now. Every time things get hard, that tune comes in mind and I see that tattoo. Anytime I need to overcome something hard. This will always be a piece of me.
By Marina Diaz5 years ago in Humans
The Disposables
A lot of people believe everyone is meant for someone. I've always wondered if this statement is true. They say we all have a soulmate, someone we're meant to spend eternity with but I don't think that's quite true. I think some people are just meant to be alone in life and in death. They're there to show you what not to do, how not to act and how not to treat people. They're there to show us what bad is so you know when you have something good and something real. If we didn't have bad people we would never know what good truly is. I think all the bad people in this world are here for that reason only, to just be bad but never meant to be with anyone.
By LeAnn Murch5 years ago in Humans
An Essay Collection: 6 Things I Panicked About In My Twenties
When I was fifteen years old, I had these hypothetical predictions of what I wanted in my twenties. I expected to have a boyfriend at twenty years old, I expected I would have lost thirty pounds at twenty years old. I expected to be employed as a cosmetologist at twenty-one years old.
By Samantha Parrish5 years ago in Humans
