breakups
When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.
Do Not Fall for Love's Promises
It's 6 A.M. here, and normally I'd wake up early to play Call of Duty or something like the nerd that I am, but instead a pain exists in my chest, and hopefully spilling my words on here will remove it. "Nerd" is such a funny word now. It's what she used to call me. "You're such a nerd, Gerard." is what she would say. Then I'd tell her "Well, at least I'm your nerd!" We'd laugh and tell each other we love each other very much.
By Gerard Chua8 years ago in Humans
Broken: Overcoming a Break-up
The Beginning of the End I'm broken. I've been trying to fix myself. But I can not do it alone. He didn't understand that I was broken... He must have thought I was "perfect." He must have thought we weren't going to have problems. I don't know what he was thinking because he stopped telling me what he was thinking. He stopped being the person he was in the beginning. I thought he was going to be more understanding because he's broken, just like me — but he didn't. The problem is he didn't see things the way I see it. We never really saw things eye-to-eye and our brokenness couldn't vibe. Because he says we're on two different levels, the way he put it — I was at the top and he was at the bottom. I guess I was out of his league to say the least. He would tell me, "I'm gonna make it with or without you," as if I didn't wanna see him make it. How could you say that to a person who supported you from the start? Nothing would have made me happier than to see him winning.
By Kyra Graves8 years ago in Humans
Short Piece
I was 14, my parents got divorced, found out that my mother was a lesbian (I always thought her girlfriend was a bitch). I moved to a new town, just my mom and I. Around this time I was just finishing up middle school and starting my freshman year of high school. I had a couple of relationships my freshmen year but they didn't last long. I made some really great and some not-so great friends, some still last today, others weren't real friendships from the start.
By Amanda Panda8 years ago in Humans
Breaking Up
It's over. It's really over. I mean, not technically, but we both know it is. We're holding on because we live together, and the lease is up in a few months. We haven't talked about breaking up; we just pretend everything is okay. He still gives me a kiss every morning before he leaves for work, but he cringes when he does it. He hasn't touched me in months. Internally, I am screaming. My limbs quiver with all of the emotional turmoil I'm holding inside, but I keep telling myself, "just a few more months."
By Amber Teixeira8 years ago in Humans
The Beginning and the End
If I could go back to the moment I stepped out of that cab in Logan Square, I’d make myself get back in that car and shut the door. I’d look at that version me who now no longer exists, the one that had yet to meet Matt Karter, and I'd tell her don’t go. Don’t you dare meet that boy. She’d look at me wondering why and I’d just say because he will break you like you’ve never known.
By Morgan Lee8 years ago in Humans
Walking Away
Sometimes you have no choice. When you're being abused, or hurt by a situation, when there's no salvation or escape, when you can do nothing but watch everything fall apart around you, sometimes you just have to walk away. It's the hardest lesson to learn, the hardest decision to make, when the instinct is to fight, but it's the only option sometimes. Walking away isn't the same as running away, you walk away for your own sanity, you walk away because it's all so out of your hands that you have to give up. I remember when I was in counseling, my therapist told me, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink," and that's the truth. No matter how much you want to save or change the horrible situation you have no option but to witness, you need to start thinking of yourself.
By Laura Smith8 years ago in Humans
