love
All you need is Love, and Love is all you need.
A Different Way to Celebrate
Many people have come to believe that Valentine’s Day is a total rip off - a holiday created by big businesses in order to make money. I agree, many companies have capitalized on this holiday in an attempt to take advantage of the fool in love - to try to make us believe that in order to show love, you have to spend money. Don’t get me wrong, I love to get a nice gift, but this holiday is not - and should not - be all about spending money on those you love. Whether you’re happily taken, the most single you’ve ever been, or your Facebook status reads “It’s Complicated”, you will probably enjoy this playlist. But, this playlist is for the one’s out there who are enjoying their own company this year.
By Christina Viola5 years ago in Humans
Which Relationship Has the Best Chance of Surviving?
For some people, it’s easy to find love. They hook up with their high school sweetheart, they meet someone while at university, or during a chance encounter they just click. For other people, it’s not so easy. They look for love in all the wrong places and time after time get disappointed. And then there are those who settle. They don’t fall in love, they never feel that all-consuming passion, they meet someone nice who they are comfortable with and they stay together. Which relationship has the best chance of surviving?
By Conny Manero5 years ago in Humans
Love
Love- it has so many different meanings and it is subjective to any one person you ask. Just as happiness is different to different people so is love. I have loved many times in my life. However, it has never been the same. In the end, however, love fiercely because this all ends. Even if you did not receive the love you believe you should have received as a child, please love others. Be who you needed when you were younger. Hurt people hurt other people. The only way for us to all make a better world, we need to be the change (each of us) that we wish to see in the world. Romantic love is just one type of love. Platonic and familial love are also just as valuable and just as important as romantic love- sometimes even more so. If your parents are still alive, you are blessed more than most. I know that at 47, I am incredibly blessed. Life- is indeed an interesting journey. A lot of people in this life equate sex to love. You can be intimate with someone and never be close to their heart. As a young girl, I never would have understood that concept. As an adult, it still took me a little time to understand this concept. Reasons people need to learn how to date, it's something I have never been good at. Society pressures young women from a young age- intentional or not- to find a mate. More attention needs to be given to young girls and their self-development to where they focus on their career, and strengths as an individual. Women are more than hosts for men to reproduce. I love my son dearly and believe that women can have it all BUT one has to have a super supportive partner to accomplish those goals. A lot of times you are competing with someone's else's self-esteem and ego- not even another person. A lot of people struggle with loving themselves and some never get there; they die first. Growing up in an alcoholic home, along with a codependent mother who was hopeless as well as helpless in love, it was HARD for me to learn to how to love myself and it took a lot of years. You either fight or run forever. And I could not do it with anyone else in my space. I wanted to ensure that I gave my son the best life I could that was free of generational dysfunction- to the best of my ability. We have to learn forgiveness in this lifetime. Comparison is the thief of joy and in this age of social media, it is a constant. Your journey is yours and yours alone to take in this life. Choose to spread love in this hate filled world. You will be rewarded in the end. What I have found is if you focus on helping others, you will find the love. Do things FROM love and not FOR love. There is indeed a difference. Unconditional love is a hard thing for most people. Most love with conditions. People can only meet you as deeply as they have met themselves. If someone tells you something about themselves, as bad as you may see more potential in them than they do, believe them for they know themselves better than you. If you love from a genuine space without conditions, then you won. If you walked away from ANY relationship that was low vibrational, you won- collect that win. Change your thinking and change your life. It happened for me.
By Vikki Conley Ikard5 years ago in Humans
Sharing a Funnel Cake
“… and I want to split a funnel cake. Powdered.” I hesitated because funnel cake did not fit easily into my fitness plan. But I gave in. I knew what he was doing. He was fantasizing about a weekend getaway. He wanted to rent a cabin, play on bumper cars—which he warned he would get ruthless—and split a funnel cake (that, at my hands, would become a powdered sugar food fight). He had steamy items on his wish list too—but he made it clear that I was under no obligation to share a bed. But he would require a hug.
By Risen Writing5 years ago in Humans
Give a Different Kind of Gift This Valentine’s Day
In 1984, a woman gave her husband an incredible gift. Unbeknownst to her, this simple, free act of unwavering love that took less than a minute to deliver would not just change their lives but would make history. In the years to come, this gift would touch the lives of many around the world - definitely mine - and perhaps yours, too.
By Maeya Lily5 years ago in Humans
Why are they great until they gotta be great?
Lizzo said it best. Why men great until they gotta be great? But I like to use they. Because lets face it, people suck with it comes to dating. We live in a world of instant gratification. Swipe left...swipe right. Order food, pay the extra $20 fees for UberEats. Watch a good Netflix show...and maybe "chill." But what happens after that. Maybe text the person the next day to say you had a good and should do it again...and never do it again. On the next. Swipe left...swipe right, and repeat the whole process again. This has been my experience for the past two years. Which brings me to Valentines day. I have been single for 2 years now and the idea of valentines day is giving me so many flashbacks of my relationship. During that relationship, I never had a decent valentines day date. Our valentines day dates ended up in an arguments, walking down the streets of Manhattan and riding silently on the subway. But other than that holiday, we were good. We enjoyed each others company, and went out cute regular dates. Movies, dinner, and a Broadway show here and there. But if our regular dates were so great, then why was Valentines day the worst day for us? Was it the pressure to express our love with materialistic values? We would give each other random gifts through out the year to show that we were thinking of each other. So the idea of trying to find a specific Valentine's day felt awkward. I know people say "Everyday should feel like Valentine's Day." It's corny but I somewhat agree. If I love my partner every day, then what difference does it make on Valentine's Day? I guess the same could be said about Anniversaries. But anniversaries are special because you are celebrating the day you decided to be together for the rest of your life. You care celebrating the love that you have for one another. What exactly is Valentine's day celebrating?
By Nicheal Gadson5 years ago in Humans
Everyone needs a Beach day
The sand was gritty scarping the bottoms of my feet as I trudge through it to get to my favorite spot on the beach to clear my mind. My mind so full of thoughts as I wondered " how did I get here"? Circumstances that led from a great life at one time to mulitple deaths all at once. My lover, passed suddenly, my soul mate, we had plans. We were traveling having a great time meeting goals then, poof it was all gone. A tragic accident took her suddenly, quietly and now it seems as if she was never here.I grew up in foster care, many homes, many people in and out of my life but there was one woman that became my one and only mother figure and stayed with me through out my life. She was taken by the virus that stormed through the world like a military army with only one goal " death take as many".
By chrystal neel5 years ago in Humans
Tucked Away
Vincent struggled his entire adult life with money and love. He could never seem to make enough to even get by most of the time, let alone be comfortable. He had remained single and had a predilection for daydreaming and getting lost in the past. The last time he remembered being genuinely happy was in high school when the future was bright, and Lacey was the light that shined the way. His mother, still the librarian at his small, rural high school in upstate New York, had called yesterday to let him know that Lacey, who had also never married, had passed away after a long battle with brain cancer. The one that got away was now gone forever.
By Ryan Foster5 years ago in Humans
Ethereal Connection
“Have you ever fallen in love with your sister? Okay, not your sister, but someone like a sister to you? Someone so close to you that they know every mistake you’ve ever made, seen every side to your mystery, witnessed all your insecurities? Well I have and it caught me by surprise. You see, it all started with a text and a great idea.”
By James Asher5 years ago in Humans
