humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
The Old Woman
The old woman was walking in front of me. Her step has not lost its determination, scarves gracefully wind round a neck shrouded in web-like grey. Life goes on, it begins and it ends. You can only hold on to what you gain while it's going. That determination, one foot in front of the other. It is learnt, it is conditioned and maintained. She marches gracefully on and I try to match her step as I follow behind. All too soon, I see I must be left behind. She walks on and I halt at my stop. At a door with a building sense of dread before I make that final step inside.
By Nessy Writer7 years ago in Humans
Ontology of Silence: Discomfort in an Age of Autonomy
“Everything about you helps me sleep,” he mumbled. I had just finished reciting some of my earlier literary works, a selection of written correspondence between myself and my journal from the beginnings of my first semester as a graduate student. Maybe slowness is a gift only received once you’ve crossed the threshold of a specific age. I like to think of the elderly as reflective sages with a warehouse of knowledge that they are just now starting to catalogue. They create a dewey decimal system for their experiences towards the middle and end of their lives. They study and drink tea. They are afforded time to read a newspaper. Perhaps, slowness is an ignorance to responsibility or a freeing from social constraints.
By Alyssa Maurer7 years ago in Humans
Don't Tell Me Who to Be!
People say that I am difficult. I have been told this ever since I was a child, and in every single relationship that I have. I find this interesting, because every time I have a bad mood, speak my mind, or get a little worked up, it is attributed to the mental health problems I was diagnosed with, or me being nasty. However, when others do this to me, then I am supposed to sit silently and accept it. If I speak out against it, then I am deemed "mentally ill." This has happened across most of my relationships, but how much of that is because we have been incompatible? And how much of it, is down to the fact that I attract all the wrong people.
By Carol Ann Townend7 years ago in Humans
Jealousy, the Crippling Emotion
What causes jealousy? Is it lack of self-esteem? Many would agree that lack of confidence is a big part of jealousy. When you don't feel very worthwhile or attractive, it's easy to become insanely jealous, especially if you fear you are going to lose someone you love. Below are some symptoms of jealousy and what the outcome of that emotion usually brings.
By Denise Willis7 years ago in Humans
My Brain Thinks It's a Mind-Reader
According to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mind-reading is a type of cognitive distortion that involves the belief that we know what others are thinking. This isn't in a psychic, ESP kind of sense, but more along the lines of thinking that we can tell from the situation or their behaviour that person A must be thinking X, and then jumping to the conclusion that it's a fact with 100 percent certainty that person A is thinking X.
By Ashley L. Peterson7 years ago in Humans
Pathway to Self-Sufficiency
This is an announcement of a new project created by Hope Station USA that will be a huge benefit to the homeless as well as the communities in which they live. It is called Pathway to Self-Sufficiency which will be a little community or village, if you will, that the homeless will live in. it will be a community of tiny houses in a fenced-in community with a six-month program.
By Brandi Payne7 years ago in Humans
Crushes
We all get crushes on people we know, people we don't, be it celebrities or professionals, but is this okay? I think it depends on an individual opinion, values, and beliefs. The saying, "You can look but not touch," is true, especially if you're taken, but then if you're not, that depends on your views, morals, and beliefs.
By Carol Ann Townend7 years ago in Humans
The Library of Lives
I sat on the train and wondered and waited. I thought of that film I watched on my first meeting of a man who I’d spoken to for two years online and never met till then. He cooked me steak as if it was just another Thursday. "Before the sunrise," a film about a French girl and American man, strangers on the train who fell in love for a day before resuming the rest of their lives. It seemed fitting. The spontaneity. The random belief that anything could happen. If you just let it. If you took a chance on a stranger.
By Nessy Writer7 years ago in Humans
