humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
Dear Journal
Dear Journal, This is my first entry. I have so much to talk about, so many to things to say. Where do I even start? I guess I will start with the stuff that is in the front of my brain first. So, there is this girl I have been seeing around. Well, it's a little more than that. I have talked to this girl and I have a superficial relationship with her mother. The girl is a year older than my oldest daughter. The mother is a year or so older than me. Mom has two other children. She has a younger daughter that is about 4 and a 7 month old infant son. On the outside, they appear normal. They have a house and a vehicle. The kids go to school. Mom doesn't work. She doesn't have any visible disabilities. She could be impaired mentally some how and maybe that prevents her from being able to work. I know for sure that the family receives government assistance. I know for sure because we had a conversation about it. I had mentioned having and using food stamps and she related by saying she gets stamps, cash assistance as well as subsidized housing. Shoot! I wish I could get subsidized housing lol.
By Latoya Giles 4 years ago in Journal
Dozens of psychologists sent a letter to Putin
Dozens of psychologists around the world have signed an open letter to President Putin explaining what is happening to him and why he must stop the war. It is not clear what was the motivation of psychologists, but it is hard for me to believe that naivety, because such an approach, if it has no other goal, shows this: boundless naivety. This is what psychologists say. And why their letter will have no effect.
By Mindy Mindy4 years ago in Journal
She Said I Had Porridge For Brains — Here Is How You Can Manage Extreme Anger
Yesterday I was attacked by someone who hurled insults at me in public. “You are a University graduate but your reasoning and intellect are non existent, you lack even the base cognition that aids a child in knowing how to take a shit,.. Then you call yourself an engineer? A phony maybe… All that wasted money, it could have just as well been drained down the toilet…”
By James Ssekamatte4 years ago in Journal
Companies Around the World Are Saying “Nyet” to Doing Business in Russia After the Invasion of Ukraine
“The answer to all your questions is money…” —- Don Ohlmeyer, as told to Tony Kornheiser Introduction All too often, as a strategic management professor and consultant, we talk in abstract terms about companies and their top management “doing the right thing” when it comes to really tough issues involving corporate ethics and social responsibility. In many classes across the business curriculum, the ethics chapter is put off to be the last one on the reading list. And if there’s a snow day, a professor sick day, or these days, maybe a COVID-19-related class cancellation, well, it’s okay if we never even get to talking about business ethics in class! Talking about ethics can make students - and yes even their professors - feel uncomfortable, as ethical issues are often intertwined with what are often controversial - and many times highly personal and highly charged societal, political, environmental, sexual, religious, etc. matters. Beyond the classroom and even the corporate training room however, we know that acting ethically is even harder, and oftentimes, making the ethical decision is not just hard - but it can also be very, very costly.
By David Wyld4 years ago in Journal
The Complete Guide to After Pediatric Heart Surgery and What You Need to Know
Pediatric heart surgery is a specialized treatment for those children who have congenital heart defects. Pediatric heart surgeries are done on very young children who have to undergo these surgeries because they are not able to live with their heart defects.
By Satish Kumar4 years ago in Journal
As Ukraine fights for its freedom, we must conquer our fear
Over the past weeks, as I put my three-year-old son to bed each night in the safety of our home, all I could think about were the parents in Ukraine who were now marking their children’s blood type with a sticker when sending them to school. This recent precaution has quickly become a routine for many Ukrainians, especially in eastern Ukraine, where the war with Russia was imminent, or so we kept hearing. Some of these children are even products of the war, the offspring of couples who met on the frontlines, most of them volunteers. Their parents returned home to raise these children from 2017 onwards, hoping for at least a semblance of normalcy during a lull in the midst of a war that has never come to an end.
By lisa maggie4 years ago in Journal
Evolution, the Big Bang, Creationism or something beyond
The trivial and banal that surrounds us everyday, are leading to chronic boredom and ennui. Granted some of us are fine with it. Others like myself, are looking to expand our minds with a greater purpose and mindset, that eliminates the everyday drudgery and reach for a higher purpose for our minds, bodies and souls.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Journal
Chicago Stories: James 'Jimbo' Dooley
Jim ‘Jimbo’ Dooley was honored and remembered today. He was 51 years young. So, we woke early, got dressed this sunny March Saturday morning only a few weeks before the St. Patrick’s Day holiday, the Chicago Irish holy day and made our way to St Margaret Mary on Chicago’s Northside. That is the way we learned to do it. Be present in one’s life and pay your respects when that time comes. To be part of a man’s sendoff is to know you were part of their life. No matter how big or small a part, you were part of it.
By Stephen Conrad4 years ago in Journal
Bus Driver in Purgatory
Our jobs. We work to finance our lives. We work to eat. We work to put the roof over our heads. My life is in a transitional phase right now. Shifting from one endeavor to the next. In the interim, I drive a bus. In between a failed business and the next thing, I have chosen to expedite the masses from one section of their lives to the next.
By Lee Holmes4 years ago in Journal
Dear Universe
Dear Life, I want to experience you to the fullest. I want to live my best life. The problem is that I don’t know where to start. I’m trying to figure out where I belong. What is my purpose in life? How do I know if I found it? I feel so lost. It’s like my entire existence is meaningless. At this point, I no longer have any idea what's going on. I am seriously just pretending to know what to do. You aren’t really helping me out at all. You need to get your shit together. I’m getting really tired of being alive right now. Just do something to make it all stop. Please stop sending all these people into my life. I'm sick of dealing with people who are only out for themselves. I'm going to start stabbing people. I am not built to deal with this much stupidity. Give me something to work with. Just do something other than what you're doing. Start a zombie apocalypse. I'm actually somewhat prepared to deal with zombies. Or even let aliens invade this shit hole of a planet. Obviously, plagues aren't working. Maybe we need a different way to end the world. Look, it's quite apparent that you don't know what you're doing either. If you did everything would be different. You need to step up your game. Put someone else in charge if you need to. I don't want to tell you how to do your job. But you're doing everything wrong at this point. You are failing miserably at all of this. You are also making us all miserable in the process. Give it up already. You obviously have no idea what you are doing. Why exactly did you place these people in my life? I'm starting to wonder if this is a cruel joke. You are a sadist or something. Why is any of this ok? Can't you help me out just a little? Give me some sort of break, please. I'm getting really tired of being this stressed all the time. I'm about to combust. I don't know how much more of this I can take. What is going on with you? Haven't you done enough to me in my lifetime? Is there some sort of lesson that I'm supposed to be learning? I'm over all of it. I am completely done with everything. I don't care anymore. This is me giving up entirely. I don't know what else you want from me. I don't know what else you could possibly do. You've already cost me my sanity. You've already cursed me with a plethora of mental illnesses. What else is there? None of this is making sense anymore. I am forfeiting; you win. Whatever sick game this is, you win. There couldn't possibly be anything else that you could do. I have nothing else to give. I have nothing else to lose. This is it for me. I've got absolutely nothing left. There is no more fight in me. I am ready to let it all fade to black. I just want some peace and quiet. I don't want to have to continue to try this hard. I am completely exhausted. I need a long break. I don't want to try anymore. I don't want to do anything anymore. Maybe it's time for you to retire. Let's make a deal, you retire and I'll take whatever is given to me. Or you could start a zombie apocalypse and end everything right now. This way we both win or neither of us wins.
By Jasmine Harris4 years ago in Journal
