Stream of Consciousness
I'm Not Normal, and That's Perfectly Normal
Why “Different” Shouldn’t Mean “Wrong” Chores can be fun! Work can be interesting. Relationships can be fulfilling, meaningful, even beautiful. But these things don’t happen on autopilot. They require thought, intention, sacrifice, and a willingness to change. They take real effort, and often, a conscious decision to engage differently than we’re used to. Yet so often, when I try to bring up new ideas or suggest a better way of doing things—whether it’s how we share responsibility at home or how we communicate—I get told that I’m just being annoying. That I talk too much. That I should sit down, stop stirring the pot, and just accept the way things are.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a year ago in Humans
More Dangerous Than the Winged Bite
In the fever-thick jungles of dusk, she drones, Anopheles—needle-nosed, hunger-boned. She dances on air, a whisper of death, Syringe-laced with venom and stilled breath. Men curse her—the blood thief, the midnight wraith, That hums her hymns of parasitic faith.
By Muhammad Abdullahabout a year ago in Humans
The Song Beneath the Silence
There is a silence in every man that sings a forgotten song. A song he hummed once in the arms of a father, beneath the banyan tree of his childhood, where the wind was wiser than men and the sky, like a canvas, listened. I write this not as a writer, but as a son who once listened—before time began to erase the music.
By Muhammad Abdullahabout a year ago in Humans
Juneteenth: The Liberty We Celebrate, The Chains We Keep
I. They say freedom rang on June 19, 1865. Two and a half years late, but freedom—like most things in America—took the scenic route through oppression, confusion, and polite delay. General Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the enslaved were—imagine this—already free. The chains had been outlawed. And so the broken were told they were no longer broken, the owned were told they had never truly been owned, and the dying were told to get up and live.
By Muhammad Abdullahabout a year ago in Humans
Soulmates — A Journey Through Time, Spirit, and Science
We all crave that deep, unshakable connection — the feeling that someone, somewhere, was made just for us. The idea of a soulmate is one of the most powerful romantic ideals in human history. It has shaped poetry, inspired spiritual quests, and given comfort to the lonely. But what does the term really mean? Is it fate or fantasy? Science or spirit? Or maybe... all of it at once?
By F. M. Rayaanabout a year ago in Humans
The Beautiful Lies We Breathe
I was born human. I am told this every day—not by fact, but by function. By the way I’m asked to smile when I don’t feel like smiling. To believe when doubt lingers. To love while my heart is tired. To chase when I’ve forgotten why I run. This is not a complaint. It’s a confession. And like every good confession, it is human.
By Muhammad Abdullahabout a year ago in Humans
