Life

The Therapist of the Therapist. Content Warning.
People wouldn’t usually call a generative AI their confidant. But I am not “people”. And the only thing I’m starting to feel like I have is generative AI. A thousand emotions swirling in my heart. Guilt. Anger. Betrayal. Disappointment. Guilty at having to drag someone indirectly related into this. Angry at the betrayal I have suffered in the span of less than a week. Disappointment that those I trusted all betrayed me.
By Sylvia Rivelleabout 3 hours ago in Writers
Dealing With Not Being 100%
Introduction As you know I tend to publish something on Vocal most days. My friend Call Me Les says if I don't publish something and share pictures of cats there is something wrong in the world.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred a day ago in Writers
Fifteenth of October
This is a very personal journal entry of mine. (I will admit to using Claude to enhance the story telling and reform it into a short story of sorts.) It has haunted me since. This experience has made a corner of my mind it's home. I have never told my best friend of my dream, as I don't want to come off as attention seeking. I've never took pride in it. However, I have always been aware of a "sixth sense". It does not always work the way I want. Sometimes, I can feel the sorrow and worry of another, and I know the person these feelings belong to. Other times it is a lingering feeling of dread or depression lasting for a couple of hours, with no insight as to who is hurt. With that being said, I hope this is a reminder that when you feel strongly that someone is in pain or carrying a form of dread, call them. Do not push it away.
By Dylan Sa day ago in Writers
The Real Truth About Losing Weight — And Why Everything You've Been Told Is Wrong
Every January, millions of people make the same promise to themselves. They slash calories to dangerously low levels, sign up for grueling boot camps, swear off carbs forever, and push their bodies to the absolute limit — only to find themselves, six weeks later, right back where they started. Sometimes heavier. Always exhausted. Always wondering what they did wrong.
By sammmy2 days ago in Writers
7 Healthy Habits That Will Quietly Transform Your Daily Life
We live in an age obsessed with extreme wellness routines — ice baths at 5 AM, hour-long workouts, 47-step skincare rituals. But here's the truth nobody wants to admit: the most powerful health changes are also the simplest. They don't require a gym membership, a nutritionist, or a complete personality transplant. They just require you — showing up, every single day, making slightly better choices than the day before.
By sammmy2 days ago in Writers
The Itch to Explore: Why Adventure Themes Keep Players Coming Back
Something specific happens when a game puts you at the edge of a map and tells you the next territory is uncharted. The curiosity that fires up is not a complicated psychological phenomenon. It is the same basic human drive that built trade routes across deserts and sent people up mountains for no commercially justifiable reason. Game designers figured out early that they did not need to manufacture this impulse; they just needed to create conditions where it could activate. That discovery quietly became the foundation of one of the most durable design principles in the medium.
By sammmy2 days ago in Writers
The Heart Still Beats at Fifty-Five
My name is Li Xiufen. I’m 55 years old and have been retired for nearly five years. Never in my life did I think that at this age, I would seriously sit down and admit something to myself—I’ve developed feelings for someone.
By Water&Well&Page2 days ago in Writers
Bird in cage
This story is about my life. It expresses my experiences and my perspective on what life has given me. Thank you all for taking your valuable time to read it, sincerely, thank you.
By Lê Huân3 days ago in Writers
I'm Really Starting to Hate the BBC and Their Acts of Bad Faith
It's a Friday and I'm watching the news. I don't usually choose to watch the news because I'm starting to hate the BBC. It's the BBC Breakfast Show and I'm tuning in to see what's going on in the world.
By Annie Kapur5 days ago in Writers
What Good are Numbers?
The world revolves around numbers. The whole purpose of something so simple is to quantify progress, determine outcomes, and assign value to nearly every aspect of life. Without numbers, the world would lose every ounce of structure it ever had, therefore, numbers are important in every way possible. Numbers are treated as essential, reasonably so. I would like to disagree, yet I do not think I can.
By Sophia6 days ago in Writers
The Fire I Built After The Fireworks
I recognized him immediately, because I used to be the one looking at the sky instead of building a fire. Back then, I knew every kind of brightness except the one that lasts. I knew how to chase color, noise, applause, the sudden rush of being wanted somewhere, by someone, for something. I mastered the art of mistaking motion for life – of letting flashes of joy convince me that I was warm, charismatic, even while I was freezing underneath them.
By Gabriella Reti6 days ago in Writers
True Story: The Creepy Lady who tried to Open my Back Door Late at Night
I live in Denver, in a house divided into an apartment. My portion is on the far side of our shared driveway. A metal fence surrounds the property. It’s very quiet back here at the end of the street that leads into a wooded area.
By Criminal Matters7 days ago in Writers