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11:11 Make a Wish. Top Story - November 2025.
I am a huge believer in angel numbers, signs from the universe etc. About three years ago I really started paying more attention to them, and the signs they were trying to give me. Whenever I would see 11:11 even growing I always made a wish. Over the years I've had many wishes from finding love, to being a model, well know writer the list goes on. These last few months though my greatest wish is to love myself, and become a better version of myself everyday. It's not easy, somedays it feels easier to just fall back into the old me where I am comfortable. Even though I know that version of me no longer suits my life. It almost feels like breaking up with someone you've been in a relationship long term. That version of me is someone I've carried with me for at least 2 decades at this point, and I find it hard to just let her go sometimes.
By Kimmiekins411 months ago in Confessions
A Veteran Named Ruby. Top Story - November 2025.
What do you get when you take a rough neck from the south and a wild child from the west and put them in the US Navy together? Technically you get me because the rough neck and the wild child are my parents. The wild child is my mother, Ruby Lee Spencer and it was because of her that I learned what impact the US military has on civilian life.
By Joe Patterson12 months ago in Confessions
what i'll never get to say. Top Story - October 2025.
i never exaggerated. i have trauma about telling my truth and being called a liar so we're gonna start here. every. single. thing. i told you happened, happened. some happened this year, last year, earlier. i told you that, too. but it all happened the way i said it did.
By Maia Gadwall the metAlchemistabout a year ago in Confessions
Snaked by my own kind. Top Story - October 2025.
The value of loyalty can not be overemphasized, it is one of those things we all enjoy and which brings us great comfort. Whether it's our parents and how loyal they are to us, or our friends and the commitment they have for us. I don’t know about others, but it's something I value a lot in all the friendships I have because I understand just how important and valuable it is in society. It is also one of those pleasurable gifts we can get from anybody, and de-facto we expect it from everybody we get to interact with.
By real Jemaabout a year ago in Confessions
When I see a pile of dirt, it reminds me of you. Top Story - October 2025.
So that title really doesn’t paint the best picture. Allow me to explain. I’m sure we all do it; we have something in life that might remind us of someone. You might smell a particular perfume, and it reminds you of a woman you once knew, or you hear a song that brings back memories of a road trip you did with two other mates. This is one of those scenarios, just probably less flattering for my friend.
By D-Donohoeabout a year ago in Confessions
My first and last letter to my mom. Top Story - September 2025.
Dear Mother, I don’t feel this form of address fits, since over the past months you have been everything to me and those around me except kind. Still, I will give you respect in this way, if no other remains—at least in the form of this letter. Though I believe, as with most of my gestures, that this one too will go unanswered by you. It is sad that, as a mother, you never managed to show me this fundamental principle: respect. Because respect is owed from child to parent and parent to child alike. Respect is a basic human norm. Many believe it must be earned, but that is not true. It is never right to approach someone with belittlement or contempt simply because of their appearance or background—for you never know what the other person is going through. But one thing is certain: they feel. And that is something that, whether you understood it or not, you disregarded for years—disregarded the feelings of four people in your family. I hate that whenever I voiced a different opinion in a calm tone, you always raised your voice, cut me off, and spoke over me. I hate that whatever I thought, if it didn’t match your view, I was the fool. I hate that I could never have an opinion around you, and therefore never be myself. I hate that I always had to identify with you, as though I were your little clone. I am not, and I never will be. But you never understood that. I had to do everything exactly the way you demanded, and for the smallest, most insignificant mistakes, you punished me physically. It was easy for you while I was a small, defenseless child. Easy to hit a ten-year-old when her father wasn’t home all day. But would you have dared to do the same if he had been there? Perhaps once or twice a month—but not every single day, as you did. You call it child-rearing, and to an extent, I agree. But hitting is not an effective method of raising a child, no matter how “necessary” you claim it to be. You didn’t raise me—you abused me. Day after day, when no one was looking. For a long time, I hated myself, hated what I had become. Now I hate the person who made me this way. I’ve learned to put myself first. I no longer try to make anyone else proud. I’m tired… I wasted years trying, but you were never proud of me. And if you were, you never let me know. Everything I do now, and everything I will do in the future, I do for myself. But I will never forget that version of me who desperately, cowardly curled up in the corner of a room, eyes shut, helplessly waiting for your hand to strike her back or face. That version of me no longer exists. And that seems to anger you, because now, instead of actions, you use words to wound me as deeply as possible. “Filthy bastard” and “pathetic wretch” are just a tiny fraction of the disgusting, inhuman curses you have thrown at me. After all that, how can you expect me to smile as I accept the gifts you buy for special occasions? As if nothing ever happened? I am not that kind of person. If someone so clearly does not want me around, I leave—forever. I will not put on a mask, pretending we are on good terms. Because we are not. Saying otherwise would be a lie. And I will not tell a lie this big—to myself, to others, or to you. And neither should you… Words cannot describe the hell you—not my father, as you were always saying, but you—created out of what was once called a home. You always insisted on your own truth. You never accepted anything else, unless everyone did exactly as you commanded. But life cannot be lived that way. Even a marriage is built on compromises. You never once agreed to discuss anything with the rest of us. You always felt superior. You wanted to control every movement of every family member, never thinking that what we needed was a wife and mother at home—not a boss. But your goal was always power. You wanted everyone to submit to you, to control us emotionally, financially, mentally—any way you could. Or, in your own words, you considered yourself a “black sheep” who had to lead the other “white sheep.” But you are no more special than anyone else you look down on as “ordinary, brainwashed” people. That arrogance and egocentrism is all that shines through you. And to call another person crazy, insane, or stupid simply because their view of the world differs from yours—even slightly—that is nothing but childish behavior. Everyone makes mistakes. But not you. At least that’s how you always presented yourself in every disagreement. You could say endless bad things about everyone else, but never about yourself. You “always did everything perfectly; you never made mistakes.” And if the conversation ever turned to you, you always deflected it—no matter how, even if it meant dragging someone else through the mud. Only your words mattered. You “never made mistakes.” And you never apologized. You could not allow a stain on your pride, or a flaw in your perfection. I hate how easily you throw around hurtful words, as if you had no idea how heavy they are. I would not wish the treatment you gave us on anyone. You broke and crippled this family. Not my father. You. You were the one. And for that I cannot forgive you. You blackmailed my siblings and my father with their own emotions. You completely twisted my sister out of herself. Look at what you raised her into, Mother… Exactly what you once held up to me as a warning example. A spoiled, whining, demanding, arrogant girl, with zero respect even for her own parents and siblings. A little queen, isn’t she? And if that weren’t enough, you even gave her a new personality: your own. Because what I once refused to accept, you found a perfect candidate for. And now you have your little replica, who repeats only what you whisper in her ear, sees the world only as you describe it, and acts as your informant—passing on word-for-word every conversation and event in your absence, whether it concerns you or not. I doubt you’ve made it this far in my letter. I’ve never had much of your attention, and I don’t expect it now either. But if I am wrong, and you are reading these last lines… why should I go on? There is no point. Your ego is too big for you to reflect on anything written above. You are too arrogant to look within yourself and weigh things honestly. You are too proud to admit and change. Because no matter how much you preached the opposite and tried to project it onto everyone else for years, the biggest problem here has always been you.
By Anna about a year ago in Confessions
Reflections of a Walk. Top Story - September 2025.
When I was 15 years old, my mom decided to take me for a walk to have a deep talk with me. We went for a ride, down the country road we lived on and to the little store that also had a makeshift post office. Essentially, this was all that made up that little town called 'Culleoka,' (which means Sweet Water in Choctaw) where we lived for about a year in total. It was just before Fall, and she ended up stopping at this little cemetery called Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery.
By Sai Marie Johnsonabout a year ago in Confessions
