friendship
C.S Lewis got it right: friendship is born when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
The Empty Coat
The winter in New York was harsher than anyone could remember. The wind cut through the streets like a cold knife, and the city was hidden under a thick, white blanket of snow. In a small, dimly lit room on the edge of the city, an old man named Silas was preparing for his daily walk. Silas was a man of great character, with eyes that held the wisdom of a thousand storms. He lived in a golden cage of silence, and most people in his building only knew him as the man who never spoke. But Silas had a garden of peace inside his heart that was warmer than any fire.
By Hazrat Umerabout 5 hours ago in Humans
The Sunday Scaries
THE WEEKLY PANIC ATTACK NOBODY QUESTIONS The Sunday Scaries, that creeping dread that begins Sunday afternoon and intensifies through the evening as Monday approaches, affecting an estimated seventy-six percent of American workers according to a LinkedIn survey, has been normalized as an inevitable aspect of adult working life, something everyone experiences and nobody questions, like rush hour traffic or alarm clock misery, a universal discomfort that is treated as the natural cost of employment rather than being recognized for what it actually is: your body's alarm system telling you that something about your work life is fundamentally incompatible with your wellbeing, and the fact that three-quarters of working adults experience weekly anxiety about returning to their jobs should be treated not as a collective shrug but as a public health crisis revealing that the way we have organized work is making the majority of people dread the majority of their waking lives.
By The Curious Writerabout 7 hours ago in Humans
Depression Is Not Sadness
THE GREAT MISUNDERSTANDING The most damaging misconception about depression is that it is extreme sadness, because this misunderstanding leads well-meaning people to offer advice about cheering up, looking on the bright side, counting blessings, and just deciding to be happy, advice that is not only useless for someone with clinical depression but is actively harmful because it communicates that depression is a choice or attitude problem that could be solved through effort and positive thinking, which makes depressed people feel more inadequate and more alone because they cannot do what everyone seems to think should be simple, and the gap between what depression actually is and what most people think it is prevents recognition, appropriate treatment, and compassionate support for millions of sufferers who are told to snap out of a neurological condition they have no more control over than someone has control over diabetes or epilepsy.
By The Curious Writerabout 8 hours ago in Humans
The Starfish
The ocean was angry that morning. The waves were crashing against the shore with a loud roar, leaving behind thousands of small, orange starfish on the burning sand. The sun was rising fast, and the heat was starting to turn the beach into a graveyard. In the middle of this vast, dry land stood an old man named Gabriel. He was a man of great character, with a face that looked like a map of many years of struggle. He spent his life in a golden cage of hard work, but he never lost his garden of peace.
By Hazrat Umera day ago in Humans
Russia's secret drone playbook handed to Iran
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a stark warning about the growing overlap between global conflicts, claiming that Russia is actively helping Iran improve its drone warfare capabilities—potentially to target U.S. interests in the Middle East.
By Shirley Oyiadom2 days ago in Humans
Observations On Finding The Beauty In Our Lives
Introduction Sometimes we experience difficult times in our lives, but this is not going to address anything bad or dark, it is going to focus on the many, usually free things that can make our lives better, raise our spirits and lighten our hearts.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 days ago in Humans
