humanity

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

Journal entries
- One thing I've found myself being really good at is pushing away the people who get close to me. Some of them stick around and each time that happens, I'm equally amazed and terrified. They end up knowing me so well, what if they one day decide to leave? Will my secrets be safe with them after the bridge has been demolished? If they don't leave, will my secrets, bad sides and dumb things I do, be used against me in a moment of weakness?
By Kaya Roed6 years ago in Humans
The Kindness of Strangers
One spring in the late ‘seventies, when I was in my mid-twenties, I drove solo from Los Angeles to Provo, Utah in my first car, a tan 1976 Ford Mustang. Everything I owned, which wasn’t much, was stuffed beneath its hatchback. I had left Provo and my friends about six months previously, looking for adventure in the land of glamour and movie stars. When I ran out of money and dreams, it was time to head for the nearest exit.
By Roberta Carly Redford6 years ago in Humans
Up hill battle
This is me running, from myself, a disaster. So here I am, attempting to understand myself hoping I'm not alone, not sure how to start as I know when I start I wont know how to shut up, I'm no writer or story teller this is just how I see things in my life.
By Masm6 years ago in Humans
The Perishable Dream of New York City
In 1904, the New York subway, built in an effort to connect all the boroughs of the city apart from Staten Island, opened its doors to thousands of passengers. From the Bronx to Brooklyn and from Manhattan to the Queens, the subway connected the people of New York. The diversity in ethnicity, riches and culture of the city could be observed by sitting in a subway cart for no longer than twenty minutes. On the surface of the automatic doors, you will read something along the lines of “do not lean against the doors” written in English, French, Creole and Spanish. If you turn your head to one side of the cart you will observe the businessman who sits on the colorful orange benches, legs crossed, and eyes locked in on his newspaper. If you turn towards the other side, you will see the homeless man who sleeps, his whole body spread out on the benches.
By RedRoses6 years ago in Humans
How to know when to leave
Hi, my names Davis and I'm writing this story today to discuss my life as it stands today, I promise to try and not bore you.
By Davis Nguyen6 years ago in Humans
Naked, But Not Afraid
My body, my temple. I get to decide who has access to it! This statement has not always been the case. During my upbringing, I attached a lot of shame and guilt to how I looked and my body image. Let's start from the beginning.
By Lauren Eimicke6 years ago in Humans
Getting Over Heartbreak
When a breakup occurs many emotions form. Hurt, sadness, anger, denial, and finally acceptance. Now acceptance takes the longest to get to which everyone knows, but the missing step people tend to overlook is forgiveness. No matter who is at fault in the breakup or if it is mutual, there always has to be that step of forgiveness before acceptance finds it way back in your heart to mend it.
By Katelyn Doner 6 years ago in Humans
Soul Ties
Up until a few years ago, I had no idea what a soul tie was. I just knew that I had things going on with me in the past that I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand why I still felt emotionally attached to certain individuals. I couldn't stand these people but at the same time, for some reason I couldn't shake the feelings that I had. I started to question if I still cared about the individual...until things were put into perspective for me. I was told that I was dealing with a soul tie.
By Lanique Ruffin6 years ago in Humans
The World
I am definitively not the best choice for this project for an innumerable number of reasons. First, I write sentences like that one I just wrote. Who would want to read the crazy rantings of a lunatic who has been declared unfit to talk to by most of his closest friends? Who would want to have to deal with me after I have declared myself the Archangel Michael and am also running for the President of the United States. I am not even sure why my family even talks to me. My theory is DNA has some sick kind of magnetism that compels you to deal with your asshole relatives. So I am the family virus as was my brother and our grandmother hated us because we were in line with Satan to eat babies or something like that. Why would you pick up the phone when I call? I mean you usually do not but many times you do and I can hear the regret in silence as I go on and on and on about me. I am that guy. I would never hire me again and just ask my bosses and they will say the same. I am so glad that I do not have a job. It is so awesome to have no money, friends, sex, food, etc.
By Mike Brown6 years ago in Humans
Sugar babies/daddies and covid 19
When certain situations hit people turn to sugar for easy money. That's not when you turn to being a sugar baby. If you're turning to sugar baby when you're desperate or in need it can lead to you getting scammed. Also if you are desperate or you come off that way it can scare of potential sugar mama or daddy.
By Lena Bailey6 years ago in Humans
The reality we live in...
I have always had something that just did not sit right with me in the world. Everyone is so damn rude and full of themselves. I just do not understand what is it that possess people to treat others like they are less. No one deserves that. I have always thought of myself as a pretty morally based woman. I see something that is wrong, I speak up. I do not sit in silence and simply watch. That is not very humane. That is the issue with the world, humanity. It seems like there is so much missing that no one actually cares to bring attention to it. That is what is wrong with this world. If you do not believe me, I will show you.
By Autumn Raine Moulton-Pierce6 years ago in Humans
The ugly sides of love.
I remember 10 years ago living with my parents and thinking, what am I going to do with my life? Will I be a doctor, an actor, or will I fail at life and become a bum? But at no given time did I believe I would become a single mother of two boys after coming out of two failed, toxic relationships.
By Ashley Breyana6 years ago in Humans