Who wouldn’t like to live in a world without consequences? Where you could go back in time and start all over again. Where we could be fully in charge of whatever happens. Where life would give us lemonade instead of lemons.
The reality, however, is way different. So when someone asked “What are the hardest pills to swallow in life?” in an AskReddit thread, it surely hit very close to home for many people.
The responses started flowing in, with one uncomfortable truth being spilled after another.
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#1
That a dog’s life is not long enough
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#2
Animals are worthy of moral consideration
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#3
No one really knows you. They know their own version of you.
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#4
That your boss and coworkers won’t care how hard you worked the second you leave the company. Enjoy life. Go outside. Have a picnic. Don’t work so hard.
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#5
Some relationships or friendships are meant to be temporary. Appreciate the memories and lessons they give you, but when the time comes you have to let go and move on
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#6
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose
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#7
Not only is incompetence frequently left unpunished, it is sometimes also richly rewarded.
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#8
Being in love isn’t enough to make a relationship work.
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#9
Just because something is not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility
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#10
Some bells can’t be unrung. And you have to live with the fallout from decisions you made and things you did when you didn’t know this fact.
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#11
You can’t force a cat to cuddle
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#12
Bad things happen to good people. Sometimes for no reason at all, completely randomly.
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#13
Doesn’t matter how fit you are, you get old and your body starts to break down. It s***s. Hard.
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#14
Two justice systems; one for the rich and one for everyone else.
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#15
Bad people win frequently. Some people in leadership position are not good leaders. Some who are not in leadership are good leaders. People will take advantage of your hard work. Many people get to where they are because of nepotism.
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#16
Nobody is obligated to be in your life. Years of commitment and love can go up in smoke because someone decided they were done with you.
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#17
That sometimes even if you tried your best, you just weren’t good enough.
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#18
When you’re young and healthy, it’s hard to imagine being anything but. When you lose your health, it’s mind blowing how quickly things change.
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#19
you only get the one life, so dont wait for things to be perfect
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#20
That no matter who you are or what you do, the wide, wide majority of people (like me) will be a memory for one generation and then utterly forgotten.
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#21
Sometimes when bad things happen to you it’s your own fault.
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#22
The world does not revolve around america.
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#23
You’re going to not exist in a very short amount of time that will feel like it went by in a blink.
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#24
Life gives you the test first, then the lesson.
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#25
The people you love the most in life will die, sometimes sooner than you could imagine, and the only thing that will come close to healing that wound is time.
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#26
Arrogance is not extreme confidence, it’s the opposite of confidence and it shows your insecurities. If people call you arrogant, they are not intimidated by your confidence, they see what you are so desperately trying to cover up.
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#27
No one will love you the way you want/expect them to. I feel like a lot of relationship problems, at least the minor ones, come from a miscommunication of love. We love in our own way, and find ourselves expecting the same kind of love when that’s just not possible. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s hard to remember sometimes.
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#28
Nobody is 100% *good* no matter how much you lie to yourself.
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#29
you can’t help people who aren’t willing to try and help themselves to quote a music artist i like “you don’t take the advice you f*****g use me for”
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#30
Sometimes things just change, it’s nobodies fault but they change.
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#31
Accepting the fact that the person you thought you’d spend the rest of your life with might not be the one.
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#32
That lot of people you have are just there for the fun times, when accidents and life trauma happens most of the people you thought of as a safety net will just vanish. Like how you think as a new parent that if something happens to you, there are this village of close friends and tight knit relatives and family that will be there for the kids. It’s really tough to accept the idea that it’s really not like that.
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#33
People come and go from your life and sometimes you’re the reason why.
#34
Problems need to be solved. Most of them don’t go away if you ignore them.
#35
If you want a great life, great friends and experiences, you have to seek them out for yourself, and nurture them. They aren’t randomly assigned to you, and no one else will take care of it but yourself (ofc also partly depending on other people, but you have to have agency)
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#36
You will probably have to be ok with losing in nearly all aspects of life
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#37
Not everything will happen according to your plan.
#38
You aren’t as unique as you think, so probably you aren’t much different compared to the other 100 people that someone may have met that day. The “I’m built different” dialogue goes on everybody’s head.
#39
Being cynical is not the same as having healthy skepticism. It doesn’t make you seem smart, but rather short-sighted and just angry that the world didn’t just award you everything you feel entitled to because you are so gifted.
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