humanity
For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.
Lesson Seventy-five Years in the Making
I was a virgin when I married at twenty. I don't recommend it to anyone. Mama told me that I should wait for marriage to experience sex. Looking back, I have no memory of being either a friend or a lover to the man I married. We consumated our marriage on our honeymoon. It was nonplussed, except it hurt. Our marriage lasted less than four years. We never really became friends.
By Scout Cloud6 years ago in Humans
Why We Are All Self Centered?
What is the deal with you all!? No seriously, what is the problem with everyone either being vicious and hard to others? Look, whatever trauma or bad luck you have experienced gives you no right to mistreat others! I am sick of people being so rude, cruel, and hard to each other. Things are reaching a point where enough is enough! Time to stop this madness!
By Halden Mile6 years ago in Humans
Embracing Radical Empathy in an Age of Antipathy. First Place in Lifelong Learning Challenge. Top Story - June 2020.
When I take a look around me today, one thing has become abundantly clear: We are living through an age of antipathy. Whether it's lockdown protestors that would have the ‘old and weak’ sacrificed for the right to get a haircut, the people yelling ‘All Lives Matter’ - not as a statement of solidarity or support but rather as a rebuttal to demean and dismiss the Black Lives Movement, or the parent that refuses to vaccinate their kids and thus endangers the rest of the kids amongst them for otherwise cured diseases, a vulgar pattern of exceptional egocentrism appears.
By malin evita6 years ago in Humans
Life Goes Fast
Look at it there, silently standing next to you. You think you are so great and powerful, and yet you are at the mercy of an ethereal ghost. A simple sigh and your entire existence passes in front of you. You are young, and when you open your eyes, you are already an old person. Time forgives no one and can be the cruelest tyrant if you don't know how to make the most of it. There is no way to go back, no matter how much you cry or beg. After all, time, like death, is one of those things that absolutely forgives no one. Treat the poor as well as the rich.
By Patricia Pixie6 years ago in Humans
THE FOREST GLADE
She had known that particular corner of the woods since childhood. It always seemed terribly ancient to her. Moss grew there, and some kind of exotic wild flower that she had never learned the name of. She never asked, for that corner of the woods was her secret.
By Karen L Griffin6 years ago in Humans
What It Is to Be A Mixed Race - Part 1
The world is on fire. I swore that 2020 is going to be my year, the year that is going to flourish everybody's life. However, it started with this century's first-ever virus pandemic that the world's scientists are racing desperately finding a cure to put a period tot this pain and sufferings. In the UK, we are currently on the 12th week of lockdown and frankly, people are getting fed up with government's reluctant decisions to tackle this ongoing issue which people are still struggling to get to the other side of the tunnel.
By Luigi K.D.Cruz6 years ago in Humans
What It Is To Be A Mixed Race - Part 2
In my sophomore year in high school, I had an opportunity to travel to Australia for 2 weeks and stay with a host family in a small town called Nambour. At that time, my English was pretty mediocre, but I was hungry to challenge my English with my confidence that came from nowhere. This experience changed my perspective entirely about how we live in such a small box and that was quite eye-opening. I and other selective students had a great time at a local school where students around our age act exactly what I saw in Hollywood films, I went to an Evangelic church for the first time and realised that I was an atheist. The sun, the skies and the ocean looked familiar but different. Everything connected finally.
By Luigi K.D.Cruz6 years ago in Humans
Walking In Your Shoes
This is not a new scenario, but it is a sad one that has been happening over and again since the civil war. I remember the problems that began in the 1950's after it became official that segregation in schools was illegal and would stop. This problem carried on into the 1960s and beyond. A lot of people could not accept the idea of black children and white children attending the same schools. They were used to schools being all white.
By Denise Willis6 years ago in Humans
Enough Is Enough
I'd like to believe that there are more human beings that are good, than that are not but sometimes you'll have those people who cross your path that you believe are meant to be there for your good but in reality, they just want to take from you until you have nothing left to give to anyone including yourself.
By Angela Fosnaugh6 years ago in Humans
