Humanity
Word of the Day: 漬物
I am amazingly calm right now, I actually don't have anyone in my energy right now, it feels... blissful. I am making my pickled onions right now, I am about the roast my pumpkin from halloween, I think I am going to plant the seeds outside since I can. I mean, it is very pleasant. I know I need to still do my homework and such but since I have 5 pages of todo lists, I really have spare time to do stuff right now.
By Kayla McIntosh17 days ago in Confessions
I still text my dad's phone when life gets tough.
My dad's phone number is still saved in my contacts. I've never deleted it. I don't think I ever will. At first it was an accident. After he died, the idea of removing his name felt so final, like erasing evidence that he was ever here. So I let it go. His contact photo still shows him squinting into the sun, smiling like he didn't know how to take a serious picture.
By Echoes of Life17 days ago in Confessions
HE DOWN BAD FR Olympic Medalist Breaks Down After Winning Bronze, Admits He Cheating On His Girlfriend On Live TV
This story is all about how cheating shouldn’t be a thing. Women should just know that men are going to have extra relationships. For Olympian Sturla Holm Lægreid, upon earning the bronze medal in the biathlon, he broke down into tears and boohooed that he had been unfaithful to his girlfriend.
By Skyler Saunders17 days ago in Confessions
The Architecture of Shadows: When the Man I Loved Was a Mirage
Seven months. That is how long I lived as an architect of shadows, building a life on beautiful words and hollow promises for a man who did not exist. I believed, with my whole heart, that his feelings were as deep as mine. He spoke the language of “forever” — telling me he would never leave, never walk away, and never hurt me.
By Anna K.18 days ago in Confessions
Clemency Explained: Meaning, Purpose, and Its Role in Justice Systems
## Clemency Explained: Meaning, Purpose, and Its Role in Justice Systems Clemency is a fundamental concept in law that represents mercy, fairness, and discretion within the justice system. While courts are designed to apply laws objectively, clemency exists to address situations where strict legal outcomes may not fully reflect justice, rehabilitation, or humanitarian concerns. It allows an authorized executive authority to reduce or forgive punishment in exceptional cases, offering a balance between accountability and compassion.
By America today 19 days ago in Confessions
How Making TikToks Boosted My Body Confidence
I started the month of February with my “annual” doctor’s appointment. Three years had passed since my last visit, and my anxiety was focused mainly on the exam itself. The fluorescent lights were unforgiving, the kind that make you feel like every number is about to tell on you. That’s why the results of my weigh-in beforehand left me completely blindsided.
By Erica Roberts 19 days ago in Confessions
I Pretended to Be Successful While My Life Was Falling Apart:
Everyone thought I was doing well. That’s the part that hurt the most. From the outside, my life looked like the kind of life people quietly compare their own to. I had a job that sounded respectable when I mentioned it in conversation. I woke up early. I posted motivational quotes. I talked about discipline, consistency, and long-term goals as if I had cracked some secret code. People messaged me asking how I stayed so focused, so driven, so “ahead.”
By Zeenat Chauhan19 days ago in Confessions
Letter III — On What Reorders Us Without Asking
Letter III — On What Reorders Us Without Asking The Void, beyond the 22nd century Aida, I am not writing to explain anything to you. Nor to convince. Nor to teach. I am writing because some encounters do not add ideas to us— they rearrange us. Most of our lives are built on a quiet assumption: that we are the center. That we read, choose, enter, and exit meanings at will. That texts stand before us, waiting to be interpreted. But there are words that do not stand before consciousness. They relocate it. The Qur'an does not position itself before your awareness. It repositions your awareness itself. It does not offer itself as an object of reflection, but acts as a force of gravity. You do not move around it untouched. You are moved. What I have learned slowly, unwillingly is that human beings do not live inside ideas. They live around centers. Every self revolves around something: a desire it cannot release, a fear it cannot face, an image it must protect, a future it keeps postponing itself toward, a past it secretly obeys. These centers shift. They compete. They collapse. And when consciousness expands—through thinking, ambition, imagination, abstraction, it often mistakes dispersion for growth. It believes it is becoming freer, while quietly losing its axis. Expansion without a center does not liberate. It fragments. There is a reason instability feels modern. Not because we think too little, but because we orbit too much.
By LUCCIAN LAYTH20 days ago in Confessions
Blessed 33. Top Story - February 2026.
So I woke up on the morning of February 5, 2026 and guess what and you know what I realized? It’s my 33rd birthday. Do you know what that means? Yes, technically I’m getting old, but what I couldn’t have guessed was this would be one of the best days of my life.
By Joe Patterson20 days ago in Confessions
THE HOUSE THAT LEARNED YOUR NAME
Not in the way homes wait—patient, empty, harmless. This one waited like a mouth. It stood at the edge of the cliff road, where fog curled up from the sea like breath from something sleeping. The windows were dark, but not blind. They watched her as she stepped out of the taxi, suitcase in hand, heart heavier than it should have been for someone only twenty-six.
By Ghalib Khan20 days ago in Confessions
