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Stories in Humans that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.
It's Okay
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” ― C. JoyBell C. I was inspired by my body today. It took me so many years to stop hating myself and just love my body for what it is- and that is my body.
Chloe Rose Violet 🌹Published 15 days ago in HumansLove Undisneyfied
Boy and girl meet, usually from different worlds. They fall fast, and though forced apart by dastardly villains, clashes in class, or cultural disapproval, they overcome the odds and are united at the end, to live happily ever after...
Joe O’ConnorPublished 18 days ago in HumansI Married a Dragon
My wife is a polymath and highly accomplished research scientist who skipped high school to attend college at the age of 14 which speaks to her intellectual capabilities. She holds a masters degree in microbiology and immunology from the University of Virginia and has a long list of publications as both lead author and co-author in the peer reviewed scientific literature, including a most recent second authorship in the prestigious journal Science. She has worked with highly dangerous pathogens for much of her career, and is a recognized expert on Yersinia pestis (Bubonic plague), and Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax). Lest you think she is some pale skinned lab nerd who has spent her entire life locked in a lab chained to a bench, she has also been a field biologist. She worked for five years in the Daintree Rainforest in Australia chasing down the source of mycobacterium ulcerans, cause of a terrible skin disease that plagues indigenous populations there. The Daintree is often called the most dangerous forest in the world, and is not a place most people would want to visit for a day, let alone work in, five to seven days a week for five years.
Everyday JunglistPublished 14 days ago in HumansLoving the Unlovely
We often talk about love as if it is something beyond our comprehension. Something divine or ethereal that cannot be touched or seen. We talk about it in hushed tones or scream about it, but usually when it feels distant. When we feel it slipping away.
S. A. CrawfordPublished 19 days ago in HumansLaLa Land
Steven takes me to see LaLa Land the day after Ellie leaves New Haven. He's seen it already, but that's ok: he'll love it all the more for seeing it again. He promises. In the uber to the theater, he gushes over Ryan Gosling. I stare in numb horror at the conspicuous neon glare of my hospital socks through the straps of my Birkenstocks.
I'm Still Learning About Systemic Effects
I'm still learning about the effects of systemic racism. One of the mistakes I, like many white Americans, have made is believing we've come close to solving the embarrassing racial problems that have been plaguing our country since its inception. The mistake comes not from believing that many (though nowhere near all) Americans no longer discriminate on the basis of skin color, but in failing to understand the myriad of complicated issues arising from ever present layers of discrimination throughout our history.
Kenny PennPublished 29 days ago in HumansA Parade of Shoes
Shoes! So many shoes! Worn, black running shoes bounding past; shiny, red stilettos tap, tap tapping on by; white slides gliding along; steel toe caps clomping back in the opposite direction. Numbly I gaze at my feet… hunched over, my head a leaden kettlebell propped between my clammy hands… elbows resting on skinny knees.
Angie the Archivist 📚🪶Published 20 days ago in HumansPain and Deceit
Why are the most impactful moments in love also the most painful ones? In fact, a lover’s betrayal might be the very best prompt to self-actualization. It will force you to launch a full body scan to evaluate all the feelings and sensations you are experiencing and it will push you to analyze them in extensive details, making a poet out of you. Perhaps that is why I do not hate my ex so much.
Lily SéjorPublished 21 days ago in HumansLove is...
I was actually intrigued by this challenge, because to me, love has always been many different things. There's no point in untangling the meaning of love, because it's a rope of many fibers, intristinctly linked. Seperate them, and the whole thing falls apart. The tangled threads of love are a Gordian Knot, impossible to untangle (unless you're Alexander the Great-At-Solving-Problems-With-A-Sword...)
Natasja RosePublished 22 days ago in HumansWhat is most important?
I recall as I was a young teen in therapy my therapist making me write on a blackboard a list. It was a list of what was most important to me. Really, now that I’m older, I can see it was intended to be about what is most important in the sense of humanity and what they needed to survive and thrive. I was grappling with a childhood trauma that I was trying to overcome and depression at the time.
Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 24 days ago in Humansso pretty to think
ORIGIN STORY Hallmark once told my parents, concerning their love story, that it was "incredible, but not enough conflict" to be made into a movie. From birth, I was certain soul mates existed, that they found their way to you with the same pristine ethos as a stork delivering a baby in a crystal sky. When I asked my Mother about sex in 5th grade, she handed me a bodice-ripping romance novel and said, "Here, read this." I didn't stand a chance.
Cali LoriaPublished 22 days ago in HumansSleep, dream, love maybe
I constantly sit in abstract awe of dark roses under moonlit skies Here, within this secret garden of my inner tormented self
Novel AllenPublished 24 days ago in Humans