A lot of facts about our lives (like the lack of control over it and the inevitable death afterward) are tough to swallow, so it's best you learn about these ugly truths from somebody soft and fluffy. Luckily, there's a Tumblr, dedicated to using adorable cats to deliver heavy information. It's called Hard Truths From Soft Cats, and it helps to carry the burden of existence.
Some of these life lessons are objectively true and some are subjectively false but the collection of these cartoon drawings can be described as a healthy introduction to pessimism. The American philosopher and psychologist William James came up with the equation: happiness = expectations/reality. According to it, there are two ways to live a happier life - change reality, or change expectations. Pessimists reduce the expectations. They prepare themselves for the worst by reducing tension and shielding themselves from disappointment. However, don't think of them as grim - they can easily fill the gap between what should be and what is with laughter. Just like these comic strips do!
Now scroll down below and be prepared for some cute cats and grim webcomics combined into valuable life lessons.
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Work less hard, and your nightmares might come true. I, thus, go for working hard!
Depends where you work. I was breaking my back at my first employment attempt → been always criticised I don't work hard enough. Decided to take it easier and care slightly less at every next part time/employment → gained more respect and a higher pay.
Load More Replies...How many down votes you need to get kicked out of Bored Panda? I'm sure I'll collect them today. Thanks GOP.
Load More Replies...If you lived a life worth living and did some good deeds, they will resonate even in 200 years.
LOL: getting downvoted for this will probably be remembered in 200 years. ;)
Load More Replies...My name is Christian.... so..... if the religion still exists then will people techniactely remember my name????????
Complete b******t! there are people which names are remembered even after 200 years just like Mozart, Aristotel, Shakespeare, Descartes and so on...
This may be true for most people, but I doubt my great great great great uncle thought I'd be laughing at his horrible luck when his dad bequeathed all of his sons land and other assets, and he got some strangely named cow and all that comes from said cow. I can't remember the wording, but it was written to really get at this poor guy. I found the will on Ancestry.com. He may have been set up in life to be the butt of a joke, but he'll be remembered because of it.
NO ONE IS NORMAL ANYWAY THEREFORE: ANYONE "NORMAL" IS ABNORMAL.
Load More Replies...Or a misinterpretation of the Ikea assemly instruction...
Load More Replies...Things( like vases or lamps, for example) just tend to commit suicide when I'm in the room.
Hans, you are stubbornly optimistic - i like that!
Load More Replies...wow are you sayin if some cat is ugly is a problem you are def saying this to humans but what if a cat was ugly and then you say it what just call it ugly wow thats rude
Does this cat have wild growing pubes that give us the finger? Some nerve...
this is true, you are the only you there is the only one that thinks like you is you no one can really understand who you really are, some people think you are monstrous for being who you really are but when you try to explain it you can't or they don't really understand so know that but still know try to make them understand in a way they can or don't tell them who you really are till they know the softer bits, like most people don't know that I love hunting but have a really strong fear of the dark so bad I can bearly sleep and I also have insomnia so that also restricts my sleep even more but when I can't sleep really bad images like monsters crawl into my mind and I am sure lots of people really cannot understand this
If someone else can do something, you don't have to bother, just let them do it while you have a nap.
And MOST of the time, just because you can do something, it's usually NOT a talent or something that anybody will pay you for. Its usually just some stupid human trick.
But, I would argue, you can feel it in the small occurences of every single day!
Believe me, there ARE times when you know EXACTLY what they think of you, because they are mean and rude!
As a jedi this is a non-sequiter. A jedi shall not know love yet can feel what others feel through the ever living force.
This would suggest that you are entitled to someone, which in turn suggest ownership of someone. F*ck that sh*t
Maybe my depression? And my dragging all my friends into it? I'm sorry. This article is causing a flow of depression
Not true - you can change your attitude and/or the way you look at the past, so it no longer haunts you
Or put it differently: "You cannot change your past but you can stop it from hauting your future."
Load More Replies...Which is a possitive thing as argument and debate drive humanity forward.
...unless you are on good terms with an anaesthesiologist, that is.
Load More Replies...very true, but try to once someone knows you well enough and the results mightn't go too badly all though it is very likely to, and in the world when you say unbelievable things that are true no one would believe you, I once told my friends I could sometimes randomly see the future extremely clearly but only very rarely and they would not believe me and it really hurt me because they were my closest friends at the time, but now I have a really good friend who at least says they understand whatever I say and says they believe everything I say that I believe even if she doesn't it is nice to know that someone says they do, friendship pointer.
I met people who saved lives. They made a difference and have a forever glowing spirit.
That's very nice but the cat is talking about you, not those other people... :-P
Load More Replies...I once saved a 3 year old from being run over by a car. I might not make world class differences but I sure as hell saved a family from being childless.
Grrrr... this is REALLY starting to annoy me! There are plenty of people who make a difference (on a grand scale) - whose to say a member of this audience isn't one of them? As for making a difference on a small scale, people do it every day!
I take these as encouragements to be more optimistic. After all, we fortunately are not actually told how to think and behave by kitten images. :)
Load More Replies...Oh well i guess Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln didn't make one either
idc you cat the one who is making this is just a dog lover and want peaple to love dogs more
My closest friends left me because of my depression. And it was not fading away. It was abrupt. It was rude. I'm still hurting.
I'm really questioning why I'm reading these now. I'm gonna leave and rethink everything that has ever happened and will happen
Ah I'm okay . *s**t mannn this post makes me cryyyyyyy i mean whyyy it's sooo hard like thaaaat
I don't like the concept of unconditional love. No conditions=no boundaries=no expectations=opportunities for abuse, disrespect
HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA thats what someone who doesnt like life says that you dont like life HE NEEDS SOME MILK
I used to grind mobs for countless days in World of Warcraft. Indeed it's "awesome".
Yet we are all of matter. (Sorry, could not resist the pun.)
Load More Replies...Well look on the bright side, if you are not satisfied you can push yourself to try and get what you wan
well I'm the best at being me! suck on that! Also I'm pretty good at looking like a dumbass while I sleep. or so I've heard...
Some fortunate people are. If you changed the word "anything" to "everything," I'd agree.
Very few though, and even then only for a very short time... and they probably don't read Bored Panda. :)
Load More Replies...Maybe media should focus more on people who struggle with illness and less on Messi or Ronaldo, but that wouldn't sell commercial spaces.
Maybe people should focus on important things rather than 22 guys chasing a ball for ridiculous money? Media wouldn't be focusing on it if people weren't so crazy about it too...
Load More Replies...Only if you accept socal games, and do what "they" expect. ...
He does, but hes so famous that he cant see me through the flashing lights:)
People do not die due to a lack of food, but due to politics and economics without morale.
True, politics cause the lack of food... but starvation is still the cause of death. Can't imagine how horrible starving to death must be.
Load More Replies...They do not need to. Science is nothing that you can believe in. Science is, such as facts are. By definition, you cannot not believe in them, you can merely ignore them. This is the difference between science and pseudo-science.
Agree. It is not about belief... you can use science and logic, or not. There are no alternative facts out there!
Load More Replies...Science by itself does not have morale. What you use scientific methods and knowledge gained through scientific research for of course has a huge moral impact – and as with everything else you can typically use knowledge for good and for bad.
Load More Replies...When you die you evacuate your bowels. No one has clean underwear in the end.
Load More Replies...So yep. Because that's before you die. Matter of fact, that's long before you die. So by your logic, this couldn't be much more on-point.
Load More Replies...Did this ray of hope get in here by mistake?? I hope I'll be perfectly healthy when I die. Not very likely though...
And they die suddenly too. One of my best friends had a fever on Friday, and was gone by Sunday
You should watch more nature documentaries with David Attenborough, silly cat!
Yes and money does not make you happy. You can not cheat on happiness, or you just cheat on yourself
Who hurt you Cat? Life is tough but it doesn't have to be this depressing
If America make love instead of war, the world will become overpopulated. So stop war, and if you want to make love instead please use a comdom
Load More Replies...Nah, their are people who go above and beyond doing for other expecting nothing back.
But they still get an altruism buzz. They want to be good people. Of course, they also make the rest of us look like bums, which some folks get a buzz from also.
Load More Replies...It's okay though, my soulmate will be just as happy with someone else... :)
i,m 7 i would not kill anyone your the one who kills LOOK AT THE FACE IS SO SCARY IT LOOKS LIKE A 3 YEAR OLD IS TRYING TO MAKE A CUTE FACE BUT SOMETHING WENT WRONG BURNNN
is not safe when is covid is safe when covid is nothing to anyone you prob say that bc you got covid hope you die and go to hell
Nothing wrong with failure. If you have never failed, you will never succeed either.
It was the same for people in past generations as it will be for future ones.
peaple will get rich and you will go to hell might as well sing the hellcat song hellcat hellcat hellcat hellcat hellcat like a hellcat hellcat
Agreed. It's easy to argue with all those "might/may"... Conjecture isn't the same as fact is.
Load More Replies...100% Of these simulated me to be even more optimistic. :)
Load More Replies...Damn, it's hard to NOT upvote all of them. (Also note for self-proclamed deppressed artists: these are the inner toughts of someone with real depression 24/7.)
depression? That stuff is not fruits of depression, dude, it's reality ROFL! :)
Load More Replies...I LOVE THESE! :) they're so true. Making hard truths easy to accept by putting cats near them. Genius. GENIUS!!!
These were pretty funny, a good mix of brutal honesty and half-truths.
Most of the readers aren't ready to process this information and reject the whole thing...and that makes me laugh
We all know these things. Point is to change them, not to make others feel unhappy with these quotes. Down voted.
Agreed. It's easy to argue with all those "might/may"... Conjecture isn't the same as fact is.
Load More Replies...100% Of these simulated me to be even more optimistic. :)
Load More Replies...Damn, it's hard to NOT upvote all of them. (Also note for self-proclamed deppressed artists: these are the inner toughts of someone with real depression 24/7.)
depression? That stuff is not fruits of depression, dude, it's reality ROFL! :)
Load More Replies...I LOVE THESE! :) they're so true. Making hard truths easy to accept by putting cats near them. Genius. GENIUS!!!
These were pretty funny, a good mix of brutal honesty and half-truths.
Most of the readers aren't ready to process this information and reject the whole thing...and that makes me laugh
We all know these things. Point is to change them, not to make others feel unhappy with these quotes. Down voted.
