breakups
When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.
What Do You Do When Your Best Friend Breaks Your Heart?
They don’t write songs about friendship and heartbreak. But the truth is friendship heartbreak is real and damn, it hurts. When I was 22 years old, my best friend of five years — someone who I regarded as more of a sister than a friend — broke my heart. It took a long time to heal but I eventually made it through. And I know you can, too.
By Sabah Ismail ✨5 years ago in Humans
SHOOT UP AT THE OK CANTEEN
A clay filled gravity dam blocks the upper Towy River, the largest of its kind in the world and Britain’s tallest. People from every corner of the British Isles laboured night and day to gain its final height of just over 300 feet. That little upland valley had never seen so many people in the hundreds of years that had passed before, combined. They were only outnumbered by the sheep that peacefully grazed the surrounding hills.
By John Dingley5 years ago in Humans
The North Star
I hope to find the North Star one day. Maybe it’ll call out to me like a lightbulb calls out to a moth at night. I mean, it’s essentially just a big bright spot in the sky, right? How hard can it be to find one of those? Apparently, very. I’ve never completely wrapped my head around which of those billions and billions of spots is the North Star. I’ve been told by various people that it can be found at the tip of the Little Dipper. Unfortunately, I’ve never had any luck finding that, either. I’ve seen the Big Dipper plenty of times, but the smaller cousin that everyone raves about keeps escaping me somehow. People have also said that the North Star is the brightest star in the sky, but if you told me to point out the brightest of all those shiny specks out there, I’d bet you 50 bucks I wouldn’t notice any difference in brightness at all. No matter how many times people have tried pointing out Polaris, as it’s also called, or how many nights I’ve spent looking through a telescope in a desperate search to find it, I’ve never been truly convinced that I’ve seen it.
By Jamie Lammers5 years ago in Humans
5 Key Ways to Survive A Breakup
Everyday, someone, somewhere, will go through a break up. It has become so common place that people can forget the staggering pain caused to ones in meaningful partnerships. We metaphorically sew our hearts, intertwine our lives - sometimes inextricably - and create an entire future with another. The truth is, no amount of italics can underscore the weight we put on the success of a relationship. When it fails though, how do we survive?
By James Waters5 years ago in Humans
4| What you will learn after breaking up
After Alan had left, Mia still went to work on the road Alan loved, cooked his favorite food, watched his favorite TV shows, and sometimes visited the coffee shop they first met. Everything seems unchanged, the only thing is Alan was not there anymore; her heart died within her.
By Mai Nguyen5 years ago in Humans
Concessions
He asks her if they can talk for a minute. He stares straight ahead as he speaks. Headlights twist past the trees scattered along the road. The sign pronouncing the last street flashes green. Go. If he didn't say it now, he never would. She shifts her hands smoothly to mirror the wobbling pattern of the dark road. She asks what about. The “out” is drawn out on her lips. Timid or oblivious? Which was worse?
By Lea Delaney5 years ago in Humans
Ten things I learned after I got cheated on
First of all, if you're reading this because you got cheated on, I'm sorry. Every story is different, and so is every recovery. For me, recovery came through a series of hard lessons. I'm hoping my experience can help someone else as they work through their feelings and try to process their relationship after discovering their partner has been unfaithful.
By queenofspades5 years ago in Humans
