humanity

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

The Shades Of A Spiritual Journey
I've never met anyone on an active and conscious spiritual journey who had or is having a peaches and cream experience, it's always a combination of short and long hardships, easy and difficult experiences, forward and backward movements and then the kicker, a range of emotions. All of them, not just the unicorn ones. It can get really dark at times and especially living in the times we do, where you don't have the clear set path and guidance our ancestors did, it can get even more difficult and lonely navigating that. I've found myself feeling more at the edge of love and hate, happiness and sadness, positive and negative, light and dark more times than I care to count, sometimes varying within a space of seconds. It's a worrysome, haunting and exhaustive experience.
By Karimah Peart4 years ago in Journal
Back To My Roots: The Journey to Remarkably Real Black Hair. Top Story - November 2021.
I grew up in German Town, Jamaica. It's an old settlement of Germans who arrived on the island after slavery ended and indentured labor was reinstated. Almost two hundred years later, the small town is now home to many Jamaicans with blonde hair and blue eyes.
By Alexis Chateau4 years ago in Journal
Acceptance Does Not Mean Quitting
(You can see the first part of this story, The Job of Acceptance, here.) Despite feeling devastated and hopeless with being let down by my body, I got the job to which I applied.
By KJ Aartila4 years ago in Journal
We're Only In It For The Money
I chose "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body" by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (the of Invention was added by the record company so try and avoid offending the more genteel minds) bcause at times it is especially if it values money over friendship.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Journal
A Peek of A Writer’s Life
In this world filled with billions of people, we are everywhere. We are writers of all kind and in all ways yet we are unique and individual. We have many identities and carry much responsibilities.
By Min L4 years ago in Journal
You are not Special
Leaving the television screen after a four-hour affair, my brain liquidates to the soup that my mother so vigorously warned me about as a child. Walking up the steps to my room, it’s 1:00 am, I feel hollow. Emptied by the ladle of death, I’m left with a gaping hole in my chest. I write this now in search of an answer to a simple question, what is it that I feel right now? What conjures this feeling of self-disgust? It’s a feeling that I have wasted time. Where subtle anxiety to do something brews yet a knowing that I must instead sleep so that I can do later.
By Jake West4 years ago in Journal
Dear Younger Self
I’m writing online now. First on Quora, now Medium. Remember that blog on Blogger you first created just to imitate that cool cousin you admired? You posted all kinds of random stuff with designs you liked, but now it’s long gone. But don’t worry, I write better now, those honestly were just nonsense you posted for the sake of posting and having texts anyways. Your diary was still better.
By Ashley4 years ago in Journal
Thoughts of working from home
We all know that this current pandemic has affected us in so many ways, some more than others. And one aspect that is still being fussed about is the opportunity that some have regarding something that was once a policy: working from home.
By Sharing Randomly4 years ago in Journal
How People Label Me Just Because I am From Montenegro
Those who read my articles know I enjoy writing about various cultures, traditions, and history. I often write about my favourite region in Europe — the Balkans, and especially about my beloved Montenegro.
By Oberon Von Phillipsdorf4 years ago in Journal
A Rather Improper Journal
I feel it necessary to explain that every time a new paragraph starts with a double space, I come to this document with strong emotion to blurb my thoughts onto the page. The intention was to express myself in a format I could manage and to inevitably post this to Vocal. I was both curious to see my thoughts over a few months, how I can change, and if anyone would be interested in what may be mildly uncomfortable and relatively unfiltered thoughts.
By Emrys Everette 4 years ago in Journal
Snakes That Shed Skin, Remain Snakes
The words of my mother, were ringing in my ears. ‘A leopard never changes it’s spots.’ Little did I know growing up, just how true those words were. I remember always being told to fight for the underdog, help the oppressed, oppose bullies, never back down. I had ‘Rambo’ style imagery, playing out in my mind, but the reality was not as exciting, it wasn’t an action-packed movie, because real life doesn’t work like that.
By Dean Gee4 years ago in Journal
7 Things DoorDash Drivers Wish You Knew
1. The base pay for a driver to deliver your order is $2-$3 in most markets The DoorDash website states that pay for drivers ranges from $2-$10. The truth is, the average base pay in most markets is $2.25.
By Lena_Ann4 years ago in Journal