humanity

The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.

The C-Suite Brilliance Myth
We have All Heard the Stories... A C-Suite Executive had an Idea... That Idea Changed the World... And Due to their Continued Excellence in Leadership in Guiding their Company...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHMabout a year ago in Journal
To Life, Romance, and Friendship
I was originally inspired to write short stories and content in a Parasite (movie)-themed parallel universe during 2020, when the global pandemic started and we were all locked inside and stuck playing Among Us. I spent a good two weeks during March and April 2020 on unpaid sick leave, watching the live-action Aladdin and Parasite movies at home while battling the novel coronavirus. While recovering my respiratory strength from the incident, my mind kept going back to how I could no longer see my classmates or friends in person, and how my plans of moving out of my parents' place that year would be postponed for the foreseeable future— at least until or unless work forced me to physically move to a different city.
By James Baoabout a year ago in Journal
I Didn’t Ask To Be Strong
Dear Life, I didn’t ask to be strong, but being born in poverty, a fight for life began at birth. I had to fight for everything that I needed. I had an impatient life, so puberty passed me by. I had to grow up faster than the speed of light. You demand that I do. I am glad it did because of the emotional, mental, and psychological damage it has done to many teenagers I know; I don’t regret it not coming my way.
By Annelise Lords about a year ago in Journal
Signed, Resigned in Michigan
To: [email protected] cc: [email protected] bcc: [email protected] Subject: Resignation... Good day,
By kpabout a year ago in Journal
Things Went A Weee Bit Beyond Ugly Long Time Ago
For the attention of ALL relevant persons: Be advised that effective immediately, I tender my comprehensive resignation regarding the following bathroom duty/task/necessity henceforth to be claused:-
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Journal
Formal Resignation from Relationship Expectations
Date: 29th May 2025 Subject: Formal resignation from Relationship Expectations Reason for resignation: It just doesn’t fit me anymore
By Karen Caveabout a year ago in Journal
Hostess Cupcake Motherf*ckers
When I was in college—lo, nearly twenty-seven, twenty-eight years ago maybe—I shared a dorm room with a big Black dude with dreadlocks who smoked a lot of grass. Dude was cool to me though, man. We used to have a good laugh at our lily-white, bourgeois fellow students and their often sanctimonious and totally naive worldview, which usually amounted to wearing their sanctimonious, woke—or whatever you call it these days—hearts on their designer sleeves.
By Tom Bakerabout a year ago in Journal
I'm Sorry to Say...
Dear Sorry, You might be wondering why I’m writing to you, Sorry. I use you all the time in my life—to show sympathy when someone dies: “I’m sorry.” Or to express contrition when something goes wrong. I say that I’m sorry when something’s not my fault but I don’t want the other person to get upset. I even say sorry when someone bumps into me walking down the street because they’re on their phone or careless or just don’t see me. I’m the one apologizing when that happens, and most of the time the other person doesn’t apologize back.
By Alison McBainabout a year ago in Journal
No Longer Your BBQ Man
OK y'all. I am officially resigning. Being your BBQ go-to New Year's Day party man has been a pleasure all these years, but I am formally resigning from this role.
By Andrea Corwin about a year ago in Journal
I resign from resignation
I resign from resignation. I have had far too many times in my life where I have wanted to quit. Quit feeling so much, quit failing so hard, quit, quit, quit. I quit from being a quitter. I have had hundreds of rejections from my writing over the last few years. Yes, I am disappointed every time, but I can’t stop. I can’t stop even if a review I read says they think my characters are unlikeable. I understand other people may not like my work. I know that it’s hard to keep going. I feel I must.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Journal
Sorry, Not Sorry
Dear Deepest Fear, It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me directly. Don’t worry, I’ve been receiving your constant flow of directives. The ones you leave in the awkward silences at a party, the falter in a co-worker’s smile, and those all too automatic assumptions about everyone else’s perceptions that pop into my head.
By D.K. Shepardabout a year ago in Journal
Dear Mediocrity
Dear Mediocrity I have included within the cc of this letter your friends; pettiness, selfishness, judgement, and comfort. I tender this letter of resignation, without the societal norm of 2 weeks’ notice. As it is the societal norms that I am leaving behind. Surely, given my erratic behavior, continually bad reviews, and my inability to learn the line production it comes as no surprise. If only you would undermine your own success by firing those who do not fit, instead of grinding them under the wheel of averages.
By Maili Paulabout a year ago in Journal