humanity

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

When Your Own Approval Feels Out of Reach
At some point in life, many people stop feeling proud of themselves. Not because they suddenly became terrible people. Not because they lost all their good qualities. But because their internal standards quietly changed. What once felt like progress now feels ordinary. What once felt like effort now feels like the bare minimum.
By mike7 days ago in Humans
A Mind That Won’t Let You Rest
Overthinking rarely announces itself as a problem. It disguises itself as intelligence. As self-awareness. As “just trying to understand.” You tell yourself you’re analyzing situations because you care. Because you want to make the right choice. Because you don’t want to repeat mistakes.
By mike7 days ago in Humans
Someone Else’s Daughter
“Father, I want to eat apples… Uncle Liaqat doesn’t let me pluck them. He tells me to get lost and says it’s not my father’s orchard. But I want to eat apples too.”
By Sudais Zakwan7 days ago in Humans
A Life Lesson I Didn’t Expect From a 5-Year-Old Kid
Once, my cousin came to stay with us. She was five years old. Every time she visited, she asked for sketch pens and crayons to draw. I gave her everything I had—colors, paper, and pens.
By Ayush7 days ago in Humans
Love without God
Fran Lebowitz says romantic love is a kind of mental illness—a pleasurable one. A drug. Something that distorts reality so completely that without it, falling in love would be impossible.
By THE HONED CRONE7 days ago in Humans
When the Answers Don’t Come
When Daniel lost his brother, the first thing people told him was, “Everything happens for a reason.” They said it softly, with sympathy in their eyes, as if the sentence itself were a bandage. But every time Daniel heard it, something inside him tightened. He nodded politely, thanked them, and went home feeling more alone than before.
By MIGrowth7 days ago in Humans
Silence: The Space Where Truth Finally Speaks
We live in the loudest era in human history. Not loud in sound alone — loud in information, opinions, notifications, expectations.
By mike7 days ago in Humans
This Is Why You Can’t Control Your Thoughts
Who really controls your life—you, or your mind? Think about it. One moment, your mind is calm, the next it’s racing with worries you never asked for. It drags you into the past, throws you into the future, and rarely lets you rest in the present. The mind is like an untamed horse—powerful enough to carry you to freedom, but wild enough to throw you into chaos.
By Ayush7 days ago in Humans
Across the Ages of the Self: How the Soul Learns Through Time
There are ideas that arrive softly, like a whisper brushing the edge of consciousness, and others that land with the weight of recognition—as though they were always known, waiting only for language to catch up. The understanding that our incarnations on Earth unfold across vast arcs of time, spanning roughly 2,500 years of experiential learning, belongs to the latter category. It is not a doctrine, not a dogma, not a rigid metaphysical map. It is a framework that resonates across mystical traditions, ancient cosmologies, and modern spiritual inquiry. It is a way of understanding the soul’s long journey through matter, time, and choice.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior8 days ago in Humans
The Demons We Invent: Ego, Free Will, and the Illusion of Darkness
For as long as human beings have been able to name their fears, we have created shapes to hold them. Every culture, every religion, every era has produced its own vocabulary for the unseen forces that trouble the mind and unsettle the heart. In the ancient world, these forces were often personified as demons—malevolent beings who whispered temptation, sowed chaos, and preyed upon the vulnerable. But as our understanding of psychology, consciousness, and spiritual agency has deepened, a different picture has begun to emerge. The demons we fear may not be external entities at all. They may be projections of our own ego, born from the parts of ourselves we refuse to acknowledge, the consequences of our choices, and the destruction our free will has caused. When we follow divine will, these demons dissolve, not because they have been defeated, but because they were never real in the first place. They were shadows cast by our own resistance to truth.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior8 days ago in Humans
Love Between Two Enemies Part Two
Lines Drawn in Blood --- PART TWO – LINES DRAWN IN BLOOD Some wars were loud. They came with shouting, gunfire, headlines splashed across newspapers. Others were quieter—waged in boardrooms, whispered threats, contracts signed in ink that carried more poison than blood.
By Ahmed aldeabella8 days ago in Humans
Love Between Two Enemies Part One
THE WAR WE INHERITED New York had a way of pretending it had no memory. Skyscrapers rose where scandals once burned, cafés thrived where blood had been spilled in boardrooms, and families like the Ashfords and the Morettis wore their success like polished armor, hiding decades of hatred beneath tailored suits.
By Ahmed aldeabella8 days ago in Humans