humanity

For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.

Love Beyond Projection
Many people believe that love is about finding your other half. But looking deeper, love isn't about finding a partner— it is about seeing the half of yourself you haven't yet lived out through another person.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing25 days ago in Humans
I’m 35, Never Married, and I’ve Lived With 5 Men. This Is What I Know Now.
I’m thirty-five. I’ve dated five men. Laugh if you want. I lived with almost all of them. Plain truth: thirty-five, never married, five relationships. At the start of each one, I thought it would be the last. Life doesn’t settle by “the last.” It settles by “at the time.”
By Jin25 days ago in Humans
They Called It “Shame Lips.” Now the Dutch Dictionary Has a Different Word.
Shari Klein stands on a street in Amsterdam. She wears red trousers and a blue shirt. Over her clothes, she wears a merkin, a pubic-hair wig. She holds a microphone. Behind her is a large blue-and-orange cloth banner. One sign reads: “After all, there are no ‘shame testicles.’” Another reads: “Name it, don’t be ashamed of it.”
By Jin25 days ago in Humans
I Had 487 Contacts and Nobody to Call
Pinned Five People I had 487 contacts in my phone. I remembered that number for three years, the way you remember a locker combination you never use but are afraid to forget.
By Jin25 days ago in Humans
The One Test That Tells You Who Someone Is
I One test matters. When someone can take advantage of you, bully you, and face no consequences, watch what he does. Being nice to you normally proves little. Nice words cost nothing. A milk tea, a compliment, a friendly chat are easy. Even someone who does not respect you can act sincere when he needs you.
By Jin26 days ago in Humans
The Chemistry of Chaos
True happiness in life isn't the absence of pain, but rather that pain doesn't stop you from growing. Living means confronting pain, uncertainty, and continuous effort.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing26 days ago in Humans
“He Celebrated Alone, So Algerians Rose to Stand With Him” The Story of Saleh, the “Orphan of Merouana”
What began as a heartbreaking wedding night marked by loneliness and silence has turned into one of Algeria’s most widely shared stories of spontaneous solidarity. Saleh, a young Algerian groom from the town of Merouana in Batna province, found himself at the center of an extraordinary wave of public support after images of him sitting almost alone at his own wedding spread across social media.
By Sahby Mehalla26 days ago in Humans
The NPD Trait That Explains Almost Everything
When people hear narcissistic personality disorder, they picture bragging, arrogance, a hunger for praise. Those traits are easy to spot. The harder part sits underneath. A person with NPD often cannot hold a complete picture of you in their mind. They see pieces. They see what you can do for them at this moment. They do not see a whole person with a history, limits, and a separate life.
By Jin27 days ago in Humans
Loving as an Ability
The only way to become love is to practice it. Love is neither a promise nor a fleeting feeling. Love is a set of abilities that enable understanding, respect, responsibility, giving, protection, and mutual growth.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing27 days ago in Humans
Before You Become Who You Are
Spiritual practice begins with respecting your "unaccomplished" self. Over a century ago, Nietzsche predicted the spiritual dilemma of our time: as the external world grows ever more powerful, human awareness diminishes. The pressure is immense and inescapable.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing28 days ago in Humans
Maybe There Is No Secret Shadow Government—Maybe It’s Just Us
Like a lot of people who grew up in the 1990s, The X-Files probably had more influence on me than it should have. Back then, I was convinced the world was run by some secret shadow government—a mysterious group of ruthless, intelligent people who knew things the rest of us didn't. They were supposedly hiding advanced technology from the common man and working toward some larger goal that might have been benevolent, or might have been completely sinister.
By mark bradley (mark45xxx)28 days ago in Humans
At 100, He Led a Flash Mob in Worcester. Then He Asked, “Are We Practising Next Tuesday?”
The hundred-year-old lead dancer The speaker sat on the paving stones of Cathedral Square in Worcester. A cable ran out from behind a black case, flat against the ground, looping around several stones polished by years of shoes. Bernard Gilbert stood in front of the speaker. He wore a bright red shirt and a white tie. The tie clip was silver and small. He raised his hands and clapped twice. The crowd did not go completely quiet, but some people picked up the beat. A woman pushing a pram stopped and leaned the handle to one side. A man in a work jacket put down his bag. Two teenagers lowered their phones for a moment, then raised them again.
By Jin28 days ago in Humans