Humanity
The Moment That Mattered
Life is a series of moments, each one fleeting and often overlooked in the hustle and bustle of our daily routines. We rush through our days, caught up in responsibilities, appointments, and the endless to-do lists that define our modern lives. But sometimes, in the midst of all the noise, there are quiet moments that hold the potential to change everything—moments that, if seized, could alter not just our own lives but the lives of those around us.
By zenGaze2 years ago in Confessions
The Love and the Difficulty of Loving
After all these years, I recently discovered that my mother is a toxic person. Not because she wants to be, but because life made her that way. And when I stop to analyze, I understand that she can’t change that now. It’s too late!
By Persephone2 years ago in Confessions
one too many. Content Warning.
I wrote this in 2021 for an Ela assignment Being the black sheep of the herd can be empowering. It can make you feel different from the rest, like you have a destiny placed by God waiting for you in the footprints of life. But sometimes, that small shed of light can become nothing more than the moon's aura, nothing more than the reflection of a candle. And you slowly feel yourself become an outcast of society, the laughing stock of the herd.You feel as if you can’t dance like the others, you can’t frolic in the meadows or feel the euphoria of love. As that slowly slips away, you feel life itself become dragged into nothingness, yet the only escape from that ever cycling reality leads you to the slaughterhouse of the farm. The long lost legacy God left you, was to die a death of meaning, to sing your beautiful song as you're stripped of what makes you your own self being. It takes away the humanity of the ones who care for you, and it shows their true intentions.They saw you as nothing but dead meat all along.
By D.D2 years ago in Confessions
Broken. AI-Generated.
With nothing but a heart full of pain and regrets, I gaze into the chasm of what could have been—visions of a life unlived, dreams shattered and scattered into the abyss of time. Every day, I wage an endless war within, grappling with a despair so profound that each moment feels like a futile struggle against an uncaring universe. The days blur together, bleak and void, as I find myself drowning in a sea of what-ifs and could-have-beens.
By Don-Oliver Nchetaomachi2 years ago in Confessions
A Glimpse into My Latest Reflections
Life has a way of prompting us to reflect at unexpected moments, and recently, I found myself in such a state of contemplation. It wasn't a grand event or a life-altering revelation, but a series of small, interconnected experiences that led me to pause and look inward.
By Syed Moizuddin2 years ago in Confessions
My recent reflection. Top Story - August 2024.
Life has its ways of teaching you important lessons. Everything that happens in our existence strides its convoluted intersectionality with a purpose, a purpose that in its divinity has an impactful metamorphosis in our reality. How little do we know about what is about to come when we so confoundingly announce that I know this is how my life would turn out to be. In its own magnanimous and unexpected ways, you would get to what you deserve rather than what you want in most anomalies that our choices create. Whether we get what we want or face a delay or rejection, every event is a rendered outcome of the myriad of choices we chose and how divine intervention in its beauty shielded us from the things that could have destroyed us.
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Confessions
Fathers Struggles
Leon stood at the kitchen sink, his hands submerged in soapy water as he scrubbed the dishes from dinner. The sound of his five daughters' laughter filled the air, a brief respite from the overwhelming sense of responsibility that constantly weighed on him. His wife, Maria, sat in the living room, her eyes glued to the television. She rarely acknowledged him these days, and their once passionate relationship had grown cold. Leon had come to accept this new reality, though it stung him deeply.
By leon smith2 years ago in Confessions
