humanity

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

How Heartbreak Redrew My Entire Life Map
I didn’t know I was mapping myself until one day I looked in the mirror and didn’t recognize the woman staring back. Her eyes looked tired in a way sleep couldn’t fix. Her shoulders slumped under a weight I couldn’t see but could feel. When I touched the glass, she seemed like a stranger.
By Lori A. A.2 months ago in Humans
How Law and Policy Shape the Communities We Raise Our Children In
The way that laws are enforced and presented to communities has a strong influence on how everyone lives. Not only does it shape behavior directly by indicating what is and is not okay, but it also informs the way children experience the environments they live in. How safe do they feel? What boundaries do they live within?
By andrewdeen142 months ago in Humans
The map I never meant to draw
THE MAP I NEVER MEANT TO DRAW by Keith Neumann Letting go of the past — it’s harsh. People say it like it’s a single action, a clean break, a moment where the heart suddenly grows tired of carrying the weight. But letting go is a process that doesn’t happen in the hands; and no, it’s not entirely all in the hips, it happens in the ribs. In the places no one sees. The Vibrations not many frequent, voluntarily especially.
By Keith Neumann2 months ago in Humans
Smiling is Fantastic - You Catch it Like the Flu...
Smiling is such a wonderful thing. Look at the picture above. When you look at the watermelon, you feel joy in your heart.
By Elizabeth Woods2 months ago in Humans
The Marriage Built On Assignment.
There comes a point in a life when the heart finally grows still enough to hear its own truth. Mine arrived quietly yet deeply, and it changed the way I see marriage. I once believed that love was the foundation for a home. I believed the warmth of feeling would be enough to sustain two people through the storms that come. Yet time has a way of revealing what emotion alone cannot hold. As I look back at moments I once labeled as love I see a different story. There was a slow dissolving of self. There was bending to please someone who did not carry the blueprint of my life. There was a quiet grieving for the parts of me that slipped away while I called the experience love.
By Test2 months ago in Humans
Roughly 75% of your brain is water. AI-Generated.
The Brain's Hidden Hydration: Understanding Why Roughly 75% of Your Brain is Water Imagine your brain as a busy computer. It hums along with circuits firing non-stop. But without the right coolant, it overheats and crashes. That coolant? It's water. Your brain relies on it more than you think.
By Story silver book 2 months ago in Humans
The Universe: Accident or Design? A Response to Atheist Logic
Introduction: The Analogy That Echoes Through Time “If you see a house, you know someone built it. If you see a cake, you know someone baked it. But the universe — the most complex and precise structure in existence — was just an accident? Oh, please.”
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior2 months ago in Humans
My Life Is Beautiful Because It Is a Reflection of the Beauty Within Me
Introduction: The Mirror of Being There’s a quiet revolution happening — not in politics or technology, but in the way we see ourselves. In a world obsessed with appearances, metrics, and external validation, a deeper truth is rising like a tide: our outer world reflects our inner state. When we cultivate compassion, clarity, and courage within, our lives begin to mirror those same qualities. This is not wishful thinking. It’s a spiritual, psychological, and even neurological reality.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior2 months ago in Humans
A Picture Of Her
A Picture of You There is a soft blue background, the beginning of the day, the sun is rising and there you are, standing in a field of wildflowers, green, purple, orange, and red, scattered all around you like a rainbow of colour.
By Henry Watson2 months ago in Humans
Deaf in a loud world . Runner-Up in Maps of the Self Challenge.
The world is an out-of-tune instrument, a lute with quite a few broken strings. In a big city with nowhere for the noise to go, it hits me the way a spotlight hits a stage.
By Caitlin Charlton2 months ago in Humans
Laila’s Heart
Her Hidden Side of the Story For centuries, the world has spoken of Majnoon’s madness, his wandering, his poetry, and his heartbreak. His love became legend. His sorrow became poetry. His name became a symbol.
By Wings of Time 2 months ago in Humans
Return to Self
Do you know who you are? I think I am finally figuring out who I am again. Under the layers of ego and logic that I project to the world, the real core id entity that is me. Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to become driven by my id. But everyone should be able to find theirs in the sea of somethings that is the self, and I lost track of mine for a while. It's one thing to not know what you want; it's quite another to not know if you can want anything anymore. One of those things is definitely scary, but the other is existentially terrifying.
By Maia Gadwall the metAlchemist2 months ago in Humans