30 Hard Truths About Life.

Some hard pills to swallow about life.

Published 2 years ago

Some hard pills to swallow about life.

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Bad things happen to good people. Sometimes for no reason at all, completely randomly.

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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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Not only is incompetence frequently left unpunished, it is sometimes also richly rewarded.

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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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Just because something is not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility

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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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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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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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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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Doesn’t matter how fit you are, you get old and your body starts to break down. It sucks. Hard.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That no matter how emotionally close I am to someone (in fact, the more close I am), they will always drift apart and disconnect or die at some point in my life. I have no one I can truly emotionally depend on, permanently. That I will have to walk this earth knowing that I will always be alone at heart. The love that people carry for me is only in that moment/temporary and it's often made me wonder if I'm unloveable or if there is something worthless about me. I can't hold onto anyone.... And that's a very scary reality to live in. I don't know how long I can handle this reality and it's made me question my identity.