humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
As The Covid-19 World Turns
As I began this writing a somber mood descended upon me. Sorry to say this, but thoughts of what has become of our world, life and livelihoods send emotional chills through my brain waves. As I reflect what has happened to our friends and family members who are on the frontline of the ongoing battle against Covid-19 pandemic, one realizes how not to take any job for granted.
By Paul Oranika6 years ago in Journal
Tackling Jealousy
Jealousy isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s human nature. It’s natural to feel jealous from time to time. Jealousy becomes tricky when we act out in jealousy or we wallow in it. It becomes questionable when it starts to consume you and creeps into every aspect of your life and you find yourself feeling bitter and angry most of the time.
By Taylor Hagemann6 years ago in Journal
I am a writer?
I am a writer? I quit my job. I quit my job to pursue a creative career, to become a writer. It was an administrative job, one in which I had been stuck for six years. I quit my job and precisely one week later the whole world shut down in the midst of a global pandemic. Three months have passed since then, three months of drifting and some days this all feels like a sort of cosmic joke or as if I finally could not escape whatever bad karma I had been accumulating. I am writer. I repeat, more for myself than those who ask me what I do. I am a writer? The question hovering in my voice, the apprehension I feel saying the word aloud clear to anyone who listens. Unpublished, unemployed – I am writer.
By Emma Finucan6 years ago in Journal
A Handmaid's Tale On Working from Home with Kids
If you found yourself having to work from home with kids, you are not the only one. Millions of professionals saw themselves forced to replace the cubicle with an improvised work desk at home, most often sharing the living room with restless children and playful pets.
By Mary Poppins Purse6 years ago in Journal
The sun will rise tomorrow
This morning I was looking up quotes on Pinterest when my significant other asked me what I was doing. I told him what I was doing and he asked me, “Who’s your hero.” Catching me off guard with a question that I had never really thought about as an adult. I sat for a while and thought about what makes someone a hero in your own, personal life. In my head a hero is someone who walks in when everyone else walks out. People who have the courage to push when everyone one else is pulling; fearless everyday people who want not only success for themselves, but for others as well. Unique individuals who know that our world depends on happiness that circulates through. In this time I would have to say that all those large-hearted individuals who are risking their lives during this unforeseen pandemic; they may just be the heroes I described above. Each and every one of them, they play an essential role in our everyday lives. Recognize it or not, half the things we do in our lives, we rely on these kind strangers.
By Shelby Jordan6 years ago in Journal
I was forced to telecommute because of COVID-19
The news of the coronavirus outbreak had been raging on since the first case in the Philippines was reported on January 2020, and I still had to go to work despite the increasing fear and risk of the virus. Headlines of the outbreak dominated the news almost every day, and the cases of COVID-19 gradually rose that the first case of local transmission (the first coronavirus case in the Philippines was a 38-year old Chinese woman who had travel history in Wuhan, the ground zero of the pandemic) was reported on March 2020. From that point, the Philippine government realized that the virus is spreading fast in the country which prompted them to place the entire island of Luzon under enhanced community quarantine starting March 17. Initially, the quarantine should last only until April 12 but upon the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases or IATF-EID, the quarantine was further extended until April 30. After that, the quarantine was then lifted in some areas but in Metro Manila and other "high-risk" areas, the enhanced community quarantine was further extended until May 15. Nevertheless, the government encouraged companies from different sectors to set up flexible working schemes for their employees, including work-from-home and lodging.
By Jakeson Eudela6 years ago in Journal
Never Enough
Dear Essential Workers, I'm a 39-year-old man who is in a wheelchair, and I would like to thank you for everything that you are doing this time of turbulence. There are as many of you that fall under that umbrella, as there are flavors of ice cream at Baskin-Robins, but none of you is less important than the other. Much like the rest of the world, you didn't wake up one morning and think. "I want to thrust into the middle of a global pandemic and see thousands of people suffering and dying." There isn't a rationally sane person who wants to see that happen, but here we are. It doesn't seem that it will be going away anytime soon, as much as we all would like to. The rest of us are missing our regular routines of going to our jobs and interacting with our buddies or going out to dinner with our significant other. This pales in comparison to what you wake up to each morning to do for our unknown faces.
By Andres Wiest6 years ago in Journal
Through the Lens of Gia
Immersing in threads of hope and insecurity, pain, and trauma, the injustices, fears and uncertainties, the feeling of being unseen and unheard, not being witnessed, or validated, along with the actions of others can have bold consequences for our careers in the entertainment industry, and especially in our personal lives. These elements of human behavior and human being ness can significantly influence our social development both as individuals and as artists.
By Lindsey Sherwin6 years ago in Journal
