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29 Harsh Truths About Human Existence That People Don’t Want To Accept
Life is a journey full of learning curves and experiences that shape how we think, feel, and act. Everyone would love to live every day, facing absolutely no challenges or difficulties, but a completely smooth path is often one devoid of learning.
That’s why people need to accept the harsh realities of life, which are necessary for character development. This list contains all of those eye-opening truths that folks often tend to ignore but need to accept in order to thrive. Some facts might be harder to accept than others.
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#1
Working hard and doing the right thing often doesn't ensure a good life at all. The biggest pieces of s**t barely ever face consequences and live better lives than people who are actually good and deserving of good things.
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#3
Took me a long time to fully understand that people are mean on purpose haha this was especially hard to understand when it came to my friends and family… “wait..they KNOW they’re hurting me? And.. they DONT care?”
🤯.
Even if you try your best to stay strong and get through the difficult stages of life, there might be moments that overwhelm you. According to psychologists, this is something that everyone faces at some point, and it’s important to pay attention to such feelings in order to figure out how to cope better with them.
Many of the folks in this list learned tough lessons as they got older and had more life experience. Age provides people with more opportunities for learning and growth through exciting and difficult experiences. Rather than trying to run away from such moments, it’s important to accept that they’ll happen and embrace the learning curves.
As many people on this list pointed out, some of the harshest truths to accept were that many times you have to rely on yourself for help, that working hard doesn’t always bear the fruit you want, and that life isn’t always fair. It might seem scary to think of such concepts, and oftentimes, folks can’t bring themselves to accept the truth.
This rejection of reality can sometimes affect people’s mental health and cause them to feel incredibly low. It can lead to things like burnout, difficulty finding meaning in life, not engaging in enjoyable activities, or wanting to isolate oneself. This can end up causing even more problems for a person, which is why they need to face up to the harsh truths of life and tackle them head-on.
#7
That accepting responsibility is the only way to make real change in your life. People who blame anything and everyone for their problems ultimately put the responsibility outside their realm of power and therefore cannot enact change. So if you really truly want to bring change into your life, it starts with you. This was a harsh truth for me to accept.
#8
As Captain Picard said “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life”.
#9
No matter how nice I am to some people, I may not be able to make them nice to me back. Some people just aren’t nice and that’s not my fault 🤷🏼♀️.
Life is all about facing challenging moments, learning from them, and applying them to the next situation we come up against. It might seem ironic, but the best way to do that is by failing. Although nobody ever wants to fail, each setback is an opportunity for growth and character development.
Failure can teach us more about life than anything else can really do. It’s clear to see that for many people on this list, a bump in the road helped them accept the harsh life lessons they’re sharing. That’s why, instead of understanding all these truths in theory, it’s important you put them into practice and be okay with failing along the way.
#12
Friend groups separate and go their own ways. People you got used to seeing daily you may be lucky to see once every six months.
Everyone wants to cope and get through life in the smoothest way possible, but as you’ve probably noticed from this list, that might not always happen. Even though these harsh realities shared by folks might scare you, they should never stop you from trying. That’s why experts say that when people feel fearful of life’s challenges, they should first work on their attitude toward the problem.
Rather than going into a negative spiral, it’s important to replace such ideas with more positive or neutral thoughts. Overthinking often uses up one’s mental energy and can make it even tougher to concentrate. The best thing to do is to invest one’s time and resources into solving the things that can be solved and accepting the situations that can’t be.
#13
1. You can be an absolute beast, but still lose.
2. Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
#14
Life is a series of opportunities that you choose to take or leave. That fear often plays a heavy hand in holding back. Ultimately life is exactly what you make of it. That’s a lot of pressure.
No matter how tough life gets, you must realize that it also gets better. Sometimes, when a person’s caught up with challenges, it can be hard to remember the good times, but it is important to still try and do so. Finding a balance between tough and wholesome moments can help people get a new perspective on life.
To help you do that, we’d love for you to think of one harsh truth and one wonderful aspect of life. Do share them in the comments so that everyone can learn from your experience.
#16
1. You gotta learn to cope with life alone. You’ll lose a lot of friends as you get older, and you wont always have someone that can help you out when you are struggling. The first statement also applies to when youre trying to date, you gotta be comfortable with being alone before you put yourself out there, otherwise you might settle or seem desperate.
2. C**ppy things can happen for no reason, even to good people.
3. Karma is real, so try not to hurt people.
#18
Loneliness is the default setting. Connection has to be worked for and is always temporary.
#19
That unless you are almost aggressively confident, ruthless and lack compassion you will rarely reach the top of the career ladder.
That you can do the right thing and the correct thing and still lose.
#20
"People aren't inherently good, they are inherently selfish." - I think it's the Scarecrow in the batman comics or old cartoon who said this.
#21
I'd be the one doing the cooking and washing the dishes for nearly every meal, every day, for the rest of my life.
#22
That nobody really cares about you. people only come around because of what they can get from you.
#26
Working hard and/or having a lot of intelligence doesn't mean anything in most of the working world if you don't have confidence and strong communication skills, or be able to fake exuberant extroversion.
Most people in charge know how to charm people. You just hope they are ethical and have a good work ethic too, but that is not always the case.
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