Secrets
Locked Heart
What is this place? Why is it shrouded in darkness? There's no entrance, no way in, yet a flicker of light pierces the gloom of this small, cubical room. It's not big enough for anyone else, just me. But I'm comfortable here. I have no desire to leave, yet the door exists—I can feel it, though I can't see it. I have the key, a golden key adorned with shapes and cryptic symbols. I've spent an eternity trying to solve them, and now I'm certain of their impossibility. What's the use of a key without a door? And this door, a creation of my own imagination, has no proof of existence except this feeling. This feeling deceives me, distancing it when I approach and bringing it near when I retreat. It's an empty loop, suggesting the futility of escape. Is it worth all this effort? Or is it just another illusion? But the real question remains: Is escape even possible?
By Na cer3 years ago in Confessions
Girl in the Mirror
At some point in our lives we've come across a person that we love so much we'd do anything for them. You give your all to them emotionally, physically financially, all while losing ourselves in the process. We don't even realize it's happening, we'll start making excuses and staying for the small happy moments. Those moments are so rare at times, but when they come around it gives us that euphoric feeling that our brain has now become addicted too.
By Kimmiekins43 years ago in Confessions
The Hidden Fixer
The Hidden Fixer Can adults hide under the bed too? I yearn to escape, to retreat, or simply vanish from existence. The thought of not being a concern to anyone consumes me. If only I could disappear without a trace, leaving behind the burdens that weigh me down. Since childhood, whenever I made mistakes, an overwhelming urge to hide beneath my bed would take hold of me. In those moments, I longed to shrink myself into insignificance, to become invisible to the world. I desired to block out my senses, to be enveloped in darkness and white noise, where the chaos of life couldn't reach me. The weight of expectations and judgments, both external and self-imposed, suffocates me, urging me to seek refuge in solitude.
By A Lady with a Pen3 years ago in Confessions
Tales of Love, Drama, Pranks, and the Unveiling of Secrets
In a small, picturesque town named Willowville, nestled between rolling hills and a gentle river, there existed a place where secrets whispered, where hearts bared their truths, and where the shadows of embarrassment and cringe danced freely. This place, known simply as "Confessions," was an anonymous blog where the townsfolk shared their most intimate, hilarious, and cringe-worthy tales.
By StoryholicFinds3 years ago in Confessions
Navigating Uncertainity:
In my journey, I've learned that uncertainty is not a hindrance, but a catalyst for growth. It pushes us out of our comfort zones and forces us to confront our fears. It challenges our beliefs and compels us to question our assumptions. And in doing so, it opens up new possibilities and opportunities.
By Freddie's Lost Treasures3 years ago in Confessions
Why your phone battery gets worse over time
A drop of fuel, a match, and a battery, all store energy — in any case, after each exhausts its energy, just the battery is recyclable. That is on the grounds that, synthetically talking, a drained battery is really not that not quite the same as a new one. The greater part of the batteries we use today exploit the way that a few metals like to deliver electrons and others like to acknowledge them. For instance, in a regular soluble twofold A battery, zinc metal responds with hydroxide particles, changing into zinc oxide and delivering electrons at the adverse terminal. The electrons travel through, say, a light, and afterward return to the battery at the positive terminal, where they're acknowledged by manganese dioxide. Various batteries utilize various mixes of metals, and in some cases non-metals like graphite, yet the fundamental thought is to utilize a couple of synthetic responses to create a flood of electrons. Practically all batteries, even single-use batteries, are hypothetically battery-powered. That is on the grounds that the metals and different synthetics are still not too far off. That is altogether different than in, say, gas, where the fluid hydrocarbon particles are switched over completely to gases. You can't change over fumes once again into fuel, however with some work you can change over, say, zinc oxide back to zinc. So then what's the contrast among these and these? The short response is that attempting to re-energize a solitary use battery doesn't simply drive these responses to run backward. It likewise brings about a lot of side responses that produce pointless pollutants, diminishing a battery's ability; and it might really harm the inside design of the battery, prompting a deficiency of electrical contact and disappointment. Battery-powered batteries are designed to stay away from these issues. Check out at this lithium-particle battery. The two sides have a nuclear level design that you can envision as bunches of docks. So when the battery is controlling something, the lithium "ships" surrender their electrons to drive the circuit, and afterward sail over to the opposite side of the battery, moor in a systematic, coordinated way, and get together with their now-lower-energy electrons. At the point when the battery is being charged, the inverse occurs. Throughout hundreds, some of the time thousands, of charge cycles, a portion of the lithium particle delivers kind of go astray and participate in side responses, creating stuff that builds the interior obstruction of the battery, which thus causes it to lose proficiency and power until it definitely kicks the bucket. In any event, when that occurs, you can resurrect drained batteries — regardless of whether they're battery-powered — by reusing them. The core of most battery reusing is an interaction called refining, which is essentially softening the metallic parts. This drives off pollutions, getting metals once again to their underlying, methodical state. Sadly, in numerous nations you can't simply throw family batteries in with your ordinary reusing. You need to take them to a battery assortment point or reusing focus. Same goes for additional muddled battery-powered batteries: you really want to carry them to an assortment point or send them back to the organization you got them from. It's an aggravation, yet totally worth the time and exertion, since reusing batteries is basic. In addition to the fact that it keeps possibly harmful battery metals from spilling into the climate, it saves scant — and crucial — assets. Earth has around 22 million tons of lithium — enough for around 2.5 billion EVs. That sounds like bounty, yet it's just 25% higher than the quantity of EVs specialists accept it'll take to arrive at net zero outflows by 2050, and that doesn't actually represent PCs, telephones, and whatever else that utilizes a lithium-particle battery. As of now, however, most lithium-particle batteries are not fabricated considering reusing. The plans are multifaceted and non-standard, and the parts are kept intact by practically indestructible pastes. So today, under 5% of lithium-particle batteries are reused. Guidelines that obviously characterize who is liable for a spent battery and what ought to befall it can help reusing decisively. For instance, lead-corrosive batteries are by and large dependent upon tough guidelines and are reused at a lot higher rates than lithium-particle batteries. Over the course of the following hundred years, we'll have to reuse colossal quantities of EV batteries, so researchers are chipping away at making the battery reusing process less expensive and all the more harmless to the ecosystem. Refining utilizes a ton of energy and, contingent upon the sort of battery, can deliver unsafe results. Notwithstanding guidelines, modern cycles, and our own singular decisions, battery tech will likewise keep on advancing. Verification of-idea batteries are being fostered that can change over actual power, encompassing sound, and even pee into power. However, on the off chance that your main concern is to make your main wellspring of force, number one, sad to report, yet pee for a huge delay.
By ahsan nawab3 years ago in Confessions
Things I Dislike For No Good Reason
Ok Lets start with a big one that is always controversial, I can't stand Elvis Presley. Not as a singer, not as an actor I just really would like to avoid any mention of Elvis ever. This one probably deserves its own story at some point. There is a reason but I don't know if it counts as a good reason or not.
By Heather Lunsford3 years ago in Confessions
Denying Myself. Content Warning.
I’ve only recently noticed that I have not been doing a lot of things that I used to do. I have not been eating the things I used to love. I have not been out to places that I used to love. I have been denying all these things to myself without even noticing it, until now. A couple of days ago a friend of mine called and was asking how I was doing. I was happy to tell her that I am doing so much better. I did think I was doing better, especially since I was waking up everyday and going to work. Of course then my friend asked if I had done certain things or gone to certain places and to my surprise all my answers were no’s. I was unsure what to say to my friend so I gave her the old “there’s just no time” excuse while I continued listening to her and her adventures out in the world.
By Lily3 years ago in Confessions
'I am what I am'. Top Story - September 2023.
I Am What I Am lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group The undoubtedly brilliant Kayleigh Fraser set a challenge to us writers a week ago. The Get to Know Me #Challenge asks for 10 random quirks and facts about oneself for others to get to know you.
By ThatWriterWoman3 years ago in Confessions
9/11
Has Anyone forgotten that morning when everything came crashing down? 4 planes got hijacked, 2 buildings came crashing down, innumerable killed! The only thing constant was chaos and trouble. I guess these are the only 2 things that never really goes away.
By Ahana Mitra3 years ago in Confessions
