love
All you need is Love, and Love is all you need.
The perfect covid couple
I should admit from the start mine and my fiancé's situation is a bit different to some. I am a key worker so little has changed for me in terms of going to work, little has changed for her as she lost her job a few weeks before lockdown and was stuck home anyway.
By ASHLEY SMITH6 years ago in Humans
Love Over Agony
Hey guys. Thank you for taking an interest in my story. I’d like to start by saying that this is the very first piece I’ve ever written. I’ve always wanted to tell stories about things that I’ve experienced firsthand but always put it off. I once read that as a writer, you need to make a promise to the reader about what you will deliver. The most significant thing for me is truth. I will tell you a true and meaningful story that could be identifiable or unbelievable. I will write from the heart and talk to you as if we’re in a room kicking it while swapping stories and sharing a blunt.
By Daniel Fabian 6 years ago in Humans
Love or Friendship
This hurts. Knowing you like someone and never dreaming you'll have the courage to admit it for fear of losing their friendship. Each time you talk to them, whether it be face to face or through a text, you can't help but imagine what it'd be like to be with them. And you smile. But then that smile cracks as you realise that it's just a fantasy, that its never going to happen - or that the possibility that in it happening, then brings misfortune. So you try not to show it, try not be so clingy or so attentive that it become obvious. But you know you can't be the opposite, otherwise then they'll start asking questions, "How come you don't talk to me any more?" or, "Don't you care about me? Why don't you listen to me like you used to?". You have no choice to be in the middle, trying to find some balance between not too much or too little. Sometimes you want those feelings to go away, so you can go back to normal. But then you think, how can I want them to go away when even though I don't want to admit these feelings, ever, they can make me feel so good sometimes? It hurts, but it doesn't. You want the feelings to go, but you don't. The balance you try to find slips all over the place, making you wonder if it'll never grip and you'll just fall off one side or the other, and you'll possibly lose that friend forever.
By Lucy Robinson6 years ago in Humans
Let's make a Home
I want my home to have great big bay windows that overlook the water and let the breeze in. I want the great big bay windows in the front of my home facing the sun and the neighbors and only a couple on the side to let light and warmth inside my home . I want to be able to roam freely around my home with it's focus on its modern and clean design and the colors to be warm reds and vibrant golds with the walls covered in a floral and lace tapestry with Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” playing in the background. I want my home to be with you...I want your smile to be so common among my pieces it's as if it's nailed down like furniture going nowhere or like a portrait painstankinling painted highlighting every detail of your face from your warm soft eyes to your wide sweet smile. I want you to feel at home ,I want us to feel at home , I want us to look out our great big bay windows and focus our eyes on anything serene whether it be the ocean or a lake or a pond or even a puddle and just marvel at its beauty together, focusing on nature and its many wonders. I want you to feel at home ,I want us to be a home and at home.
By Gerlinda Pierre ( @BoostandPoofs13)6 years ago in Humans
Meeting Him
I was 15. I had just moved from an abusive home and was finally starting to experience what it was like to be a normal teenager. Most of my childhood, I was told that I was worthless, ugly, overweight and that I wasn’t worth anyone’s time. According to my abuser, I would never find anyone who would ever love someone like me. I don’t mention this information because I want someone to pity me, I mention it so that you have an idea of what life was becoming for me. I was happy. I was in a new home, I was making new friends and I had just started new classes at a nearby high school. Everything was falling into place.
By Sabrina Macey6 years ago in Humans
Who wants to live forever?
There's so many cliches in the world about relationships and how they are,how they should be and what to expect,I've heard so many of them that they just go in one ear and out the other,the one that drives me crazy is the ride or die one, and the harlequin and joker concept of a relationship. It's laughable. Everyone expects that their relationship will be this whole piece almost like a fruit,complete,unblemished,well rounded,when in actual fact its more like a kit car.After years and years of neglect and abuse at the age of 25 I figured I was never going to find anyone that would want me for me. I had a lot of emotional and mental baggage and felt completely broken. I didn't want someone that was going to put me back together for me to break when they walked away, I wanted someone that would stand beside me while I built myself back up and felt more like a person again.
By Nadine Haigh6 years ago in Humans
TWO DARK SOULS
"God, he has such a beautiful face,” I thought as I laid there next to him. It’s funny to me how someone so destructive can make me so comfortable. Not funny in a ‘haha’ way but in an ironic way. This boy has all the control in this situation. I know he can hurt me in many ways but I'm so calm when I’m with him and not scared in the slightest. We met a few years ago on Tinder. When I saw his pictures, I was done. I couldn’t believe how perfect he seemed to be (for me) and like most boys I set my sights on, I had to have him. Our communicating was immediate but so was my disappointment. He was cute and funny but also shallow and overly direct. More than I was bargaining for at the time but I knew how to work around that. I probably should’ve stopped talking to him altogether but I never back away from a challenge. He talked to me about how he liked sex, gambling, pizza… and that was about it. We didn't speak much after that night.
By Antoinette Kite6 years ago in Humans
Bullet Smile
It was during a one-week ski trip to the Alps with my class, that a single goodbye with a smile as Dalena walked out of the door, that made my heart drop. Never to remain in the same spot again. We were in the mild winter of 2026 and we all took the high-speed train from Brussels with my senior class, knowing that this is maybe the last time that the whole gang would see each other again. Emotions were high and we loved each moment of it because we all knew where each of us were going, some to University, but Dalena decided to work as a currency expert and freelance writer for a year while she thought about higher education. She was good enough in all of her interests to make a living out any of them. About her, all I could do was ask myself, was it her calm demeanor, her curly hair or the fact that she liked Hi-Riz, my favorite band, but I couldn’t figure out why I was crazy about her. As always, I thought – there was no chance she could like a regular guy like me.
By Andrew Jack6 years ago in Humans
I DON'T LOVE YOU BUT I COULD.
Trust me, I don’t love you. I could but I don’t. I feel things… sometimes… but most of the time, I feel nothing. I’ve been existing in a more causal state of mind and although some may call my actions immature or loose, I call it a defense mechanism and it’s been working for me up to this point.
By Antoinette Kite6 years ago in Humans
How to show love to others during the corona virus.
I know first hand, how hard it is to maintain important relationships while also juggling full time work or schooling. The friends we make as kids that we fall in love with platonic or not; We think they will last forever. But as we grow up we start slowly drifting apart. Then you become a 20 something workaholic who fantasies about fancy trips to Europe, skydiving and all the adventures you can fathom. Only to realize that you have no one to share those experiences with. the girls you would spend countless weeks with during the summer, planning your lives together no longer talk to you. How lonely that feeling can be. Knowing that in this whole world, the three people you loved the most seem to no longer love you. And even now, with social media connecting billions of people around the world instantly, It doesn't fill that void. A Person through a screen doesn't fill that desire to love and be loved. It does not generate, that deep feeling of connection with people that is essential to survive on a regular day. Now throw this crazy Corona virus pandemic into the mix. People are running around like headless chickens. Buying all the toilet paper and hand sanitizer like its going to save them from the heavyhearted feeling of total isolation.
By Miquela Wallace6 years ago in Humans
The One...(s)
It was a little over a year of being married that Gary and Barbara had a ground shaking conversation. At the center of the matter was something so trivial, as he later looked back on it that it should have made less effect in their lives. There was Gary early morning, after morning getting ready, driving to work, standing all day at that cashier's desk, wondering what his future employment would be. The times were dangerous, and he narrowly escaped being sent out to war.
By Andrew Jack6 years ago in Humans
