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Dealing with an Entitled Woman
She's cutting the line, demanding to speak to a manager, or insisting the rules don't apply to her. You've dealt with this person before. Maybe she's a coworker, a family member, or a stranger in a checkout line. And every time, you're left standing there wondering how you're supposed to respond without losing your cool or caving in.
By LaMarion Ziegler5 months ago in Humans
TAINTED LOVE THORN
CREATED, WRITTEN, EDITED BY TRUSSELLI ART ALL PHOTOS ARE MINE FROM MY CANON REBEL AND CELL PHONES. I USED AI FOR ANIMATION. IF YOU DO NOT READ OR LIKE MY ART OR MY PHOTOGRAPHY THAT WAS WRITTEN FROM MY HEART AND SOUL BECAUSE I USED AI FOR ANIMATIONS, THEN THAT IS YOUR ISSUE NOT MINE. IT IS MY WRITING, MY ART, MINE, & copyright 2026 and before that too. I worked on this song and editing 10 hours. No magic buttons found.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 5 months ago in Humans
Channeled Message #2: "Makeup Your Mind"
Lately, I've been intensely wrestling with standards of beauty - for the soul and the physical. This message from Spirit is...tender. I see a woman, her hair pulled back, bending down to help a child with their work. I see investment. Love. Collaboration. Energies exchanging data, this could be texting, or listening hearing something that stays with you. I see someone recording content, or getting things together behind the scenes, preparing to execute on a new love or passion.
By A.I. Reads5 months ago in Humans
Too Much Power Can Break You
Power feels good at first When you start gaining control—over your life, your decisions, your environment—it feels like freedom. You’re no longer dependent, no longer waiting on others, no longer stuck. You can move how you want, decide what you want, shape things your way. And at the beginning, that’s healthy. It builds confidence. It gives you direction. It makes you feel like you’re finally in charge of your life instead of reacting to it.
By mike5 months ago in Humans
Old Stories Were Never Just Stories
You’ve probably heard old stories before—myths about gods, heroes, monsters, journeys that feel distant, exaggerated, almost unreal. Stories about someone fighting a beast, losing everything, wandering for years, or facing something bigger than themselves. And it’s easy to look at those stories and think they’re outdated, that they belong to another time, another world that has nothing to do with you. But the truth is, those stories were never really about the surface. They weren’t about the monster, or the god, or the journey itself. They were about something much deeper—patterns of being human that don’t change, no matter how modern the world becomes. Because even if you don’t fight dragons, you still face things that feel just as real. Fear, doubt, pressure, loss, identity, purpose—those are your versions of the same battles. And the reason those old stories still hit, even now, is because they were built on truth, not facts. Facts change with time. Truth doesn’t. In almost every myth, there’s a moment where the hero is comfortable at the beginning, living a normal life, until something disrupts it. A call to leave, to face something unknown, something difficult. And most of the time, the hero resists. They hesitate. They doubt themselves. They want to stay where it’s safe. That part right there—that hesitation—is one of the most real things ever written. Because that’s exactly what happens in your life too. Opportunities come, challenges appear, and your first instinct isn’t always to run toward them. It’s to question, to delay, to stay in what you already know. But the story always moves forward, whether the hero is ready or not. And once they step into that unknown, everything changes. They struggle. They fail. They face things they weren’t prepared for. They meet people who help them, and others who try to stop them. They lose things. Sometimes they lose themselves for a while. But through all of that, something is being built. Not just skill, but identity. They’re becoming someone different, someone who can handle what they couldn’t before. And that’s the real point of those stories—not the victory at the end, but the transformation in the middle. Because by the time the hero “wins,” they’re not the same person who started. And that’s why the ending matters less than you think. The real story is everything that changed inside them along the way. And if you look closely, you’re living something similar, just without calling it a myth. You’re dealing with your own challenges, your own uncertainty, your own moments where you feel lost or tested. The difference is, you don’t always see it as part of a larger story. You see it as random, frustrating, sometimes even unfair. But those old myths suggest something else—that struggle isn’t just something to get through, it’s something that shapes you. That the difficult parts aren’t interruptions, they’re necessary. That growth doesn’t happen in comfort, it happens when things don’t go the way you expected. And maybe that’s why those stories lasted so long. Not because people needed entertainment, but because they needed meaning. They needed a way to understand why life feels the way it does sometimes. Why things get hard. Why you have to face things you didn’t choose. Why you can’t stay the same forever. Those stories didn’t give easy answers, but they gave a framework. A way to see struggle as part of something bigger, not just something to avoid. And maybe if you looked at your own life that way—not as random events, but as part of a story that’s shaping you—you’d start to see things differently. Not easier, but clearer. Because you’re not just going through things for no reason. You’re being changed by them, whether you realize it or not. And just like in those old stories, the version of you at the end won’t be the same as the one at the beginning. Not because everything went perfectly, but because it didn’t.
By mike5 months ago in Humans
You Said It Without Saying It
You don’t always need words to say something. In fact, most of the time, the real message is in what wasn’t said. People think communication is about speaking clearly, choosing the right words, explaining things directly. But that’s only one part of it. The deeper layer—the one that actually reveals truth—is in behavior, in tone, in timing, in silence.
By mike5 months ago in Humans
You’re Not Tired—You’re Mentally Cluttered
You keep telling yourself you’re tired, but if you really look at it, your body isn’t the problem—your mind is. It’s overloaded, cluttered, constantly running in the background like too many tabs open at once, each one demanding a little bit of attention, a little bit of energy, even when you’re not actively thinking about them. That’s why you can wake up after sleeping and still feel drained. That’s why you can sit down to rest and somehow feel restless at the same time. It’s not physical exhaustion, it’s the weight of everything you haven’t closed, decided, or finished. Every small thing you delay doesn’t disappear, it stays in your mind as an open loop. That message you didn’t reply to, that decision you’ve been avoiding, that task you keep pushing to “later,” that idea you started but didn’t follow through on—they all stack up quietly until your brain is carrying more than it should. And the problem is, you get used to it. You start thinking this constant pressure is normal, that this low-level stress is just part of life, so you don’t question it anymore. You just try to push through it, thinking you need more motivation, more discipline, more energy, when in reality, what you need is less weight. Because the more clutter you carry, the harder everything feels. Even simple things start to feel heavy, not because they are, but because your mind is already full before you even begin. That’s why you procrastinate, not because you’re lazy, but because starting something new feels like adding another tab when you already have too many open. It’s overwhelming, even if you don’t consciously realize it. And instead of clearing anything, you distract yourself. You scroll, you watch, you switch tasks, anything to avoid sitting down and facing the mess directly. But distraction doesn’t reduce the clutter—it just delays it. The tabs are still there when you come back, and now there are even more. That’s the cycle that drains you. Not effort, not work, but accumulation without resolution. The truth is, mental clarity doesn’t come from doing more, it comes from closing things. From making decisions, even small ones. From finishing what you started, or consciously choosing to let it go instead of keeping it in a “maybe later” state forever. Because “maybe later” is one of the heaviest things your mind can carry. It’s undefined, unresolved, and it keeps coming back. So if you want your energy back, you don’t need to suddenly become more productive, you need to become more intentional. Start clearing space. Answer the message. Make the decision. Finish the small task. Write things down instead of holding them in your head. Reduce the number of things you’re mentally tracking at once. You don’t need to fix everything in one day, but you do need to stop letting everything pile up. Because the longer you carry it, the more normal it feels, and the more disconnected you become from what real clarity feels like. And when your mind is clear, you’ll notice something immediately—you don’t feel as tired anymore. You don’t need as much effort to start things. You don’t feel that constant resistance. Because you’re not dragging ten unfinished thoughts behind every action. You’re just doing what’s in front of you, with full attention, without noise. That’s where real energy comes from. Not from hype, not from motivation, but from having space in your mind again.
By mike5 months ago in Humans
You Keep Starting, But You Don’t Stay
Starting is easy. That’s the part nobody tells you. The idea hits you, you feel that energy, that excitement, that little voice telling you “this is it.” You make the plan, you see the vision, you imagine the outcome. For a moment, everything feels aligned. You feel like a different version of yourself already.
By mike5 months ago in Humans
Don't Shrink for Love
The scariest thing isn't breaking up; it's slowly losing yourself in love. How do you decide if a relationship can last? John Lennon once said:
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing5 months ago in Humans
Andrew Rudin MD on the Small Blood Pressure Changes That Can Have Big Consequences. AI-Generated.
Andrew Rudin MD is a cardiologist who specializes in finding causes of cardiovascular diseases and arrhythmias and treating them without pharmaceuticals. His work reflects a broader interest in understanding why cardiovascular problems develop rather than focusing only on their symptoms. One issue that often receives less attention than it deserves is mildly elevated blood pressure. Many people assume that only extremely high readings pose a threat to health. However, evidence gathered over decades suggests that even modest increases in blood pressure can influence cardiovascular risk when they persist over long periods.
By Dr. Andrew Rudin5 months ago in Humans
You Don’t Know How to Be Still
There’s a reason you always feel the need to be doing something. Not because you’re productive. Not because you’re disciplined. But because the moment things go quiet, something inside you starts getting loud. And you don’t like that.
By mike5 months ago in Humans
You’re Not Confused—You’re Avoiding a Decision
There’s a point where thinking stops being useful. You go over the same situation again and again, looking at every angle, imagining every outcome, trying to figure out the “right” move. You tell yourself you’re being careful, that you’re analyzing, that you don’t want to make a mistake. And for a while, it feels like you’re doing something productive.
By mike5 months ago in Humans