People Are Sharing Difficult Truths In This “Hard To Swallow Pill” Thread (30 Tweets)

it requires collaborative work

And the original statement isn't true. Youth are not being trained for what they're about to be subjected to even minimally.

To be fair if we told our kids how f****d up the world is they woukd get depressed and never try anything. If I had known all those years ago that being a good daughter just would bring me hate from my dad, that being a good student would get me nowhere and that working hard doesn't pay off I would have become extremely apathic. I wasted my life studying and working to sit at home after years of being unpaid or unemployed. All to end up being too sick to even walk the dog.

World is not cruel by itself. It's people who make it hard to live in.

I wasn't prepared for a cruel world. I really believed it was good. And I wanted to make it even nicer. I got f****d up completely. So better prepare them, that the world is a piece of s**t

So very true.

most of the times, it's mainly Luck.

Especially when you work part-time but do more work than full timers -_- too true in so many offices and places of work

And the opposite. Success doesn't mean that you worked hard.

...but it does mean progress, failing=learning

I needed this. I don’t love my father, but I feel so guilty

Yes. You are not required by any means to love and care for anyone who wouldn't do the same for you

Family need not to be blood and blood need not to be family.

Doesn't mean they love you. Or they don't know how to love you.

AMEN!!

The problem is people thinking they are stuck with family... if they are not good for you, leave them.

I used to teach stress management and the hardest part of it was trying to convince people that they can ditch toxic family members. Most of the students just wouldn't accept that as a fact. "But they're family!" So what? They also stress you out and make you angry every time you think about them or are around them. I gave them the info and the reasoning. That's all I could do.

It's true and it's sad. It took me a long time to realize how lucky I am to have a healthy home environment and a good family.

Yes yes yes!

As the quote says - the blood of the covenant are thicker than the waters of the womb. This is often quoted in part to say family is more important but actually means that friendship - or those you choose -(covenant) is more important than family

Not necessarily true. Some people do demand sacrifice. Then run. Fast.

And people who make sacrifices no one asked them to, should stop expecting some sort of medal for doing something they chose to do.

What about when they ask for it? I am staying alive despite horrible illnesses and wanting euthanasia just because my partner asked me to. If he ever tells me that I am going to slap the frap out of him.

Don't help anyone if they don't ask for it. I learned that the hard way.

Maybe sometimes don't see it as sacrifice, but as an investment. Sounds a bit better. It's risky but it may reap good things

This is true. I've been the toxic person before, and I realized my shortcomings too late and lost a very dear friend as a result. The scary thing, though? I honestly had no idea that my behavior was inappropriate, and I held no malice or ill will towards my friend. But unfortunately I was in a bad place, and they were the unfortunate victim of my lashing out. I'm much better now, but I hate what it cost me to get better.

I think we all need to think on is statement and hopefully grow from it.

Don't personally subscribe to the 'meant to be'. Yes, I think some people are in our lives for a short while because we get what we need out of that relationship and then move on. They fulfil a particular need at the time. That's not 'meant to be'.

There is no such thing as "meant to". Harder to swallow?

So very true.

ha ha ha.. No.

the trick is to learn when to let go and try to do it with grace..

This one. This is why sometimes the saying: Put others before yourself, can be damaging, because you can't help other people if you don't help yourself first.