People Are Sharing “Harsh Realities” That No One Wants To Accept, And Here’s 29 Of The Most Insightful Ones

It's the avocado toast's fault!!1!1!!! Not the fact that rich people get richer by stealing poor people's money, we totally don't do that!!1!!1!1 /s

Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to bad people

So true, and it's impossible to stop the people that want to help them.

Some mothers just shouldn’t be mothers at all.

Please specify the government you talk about. I have a complete different perception here in the Netherlands.

I want to be an amoeba

And for some of us, the light is like a cat laser pointer, enough to distract us and give us hope, but ultimately not much.

I read some statistics saying that attractive criminals tend to receive shorter sentences than unattractive ones. Messed up.

I would prefer to be born talented and succeed at becoming rich, than be born rich and succeed at staying rich.

I work with a guy who’s been married and divorced 3 times. Spend an hour or so around him and there are many clues as to why but I don’t think he has ever considered himself to be the common factor in his failed relationships. He’s currently working on wife number 4 but I don’t hold out much hope for this marriage either.

"One generation passes away and another generation comes; but the earth is forever." (Ecclesiastes 1:4)

I´m looking at you Nestle, Monsanto and Putin

I know I was lucky.......born white in the UK gave me so many advantages . I do try to appreciate it.

On average you judge someone you meet for the first time in about 15 seconds. You are rarely wrong.

Umm… am I crazy? Why are there two double posts with the exact same comments—

Rich people: "money doesn't matter" | Poor people: OK then, if it doesn't matter can you give some of it to us? | Rich people: Nooooo this is not how you do it!!1!1!

we're all special & different, just like everyone else.

Why does this bother people?

Centuries? Give it 6 months, at most....

But this is what happens to 99,999% of all people. When you look at history only leaders, some scientists and artist are remembered by the world. Everyone knows Julius Caesar but does anyone know one of his legionaries?

Actually I find this terribly reassuring. It took me a while to get there, and I had some getting older to do but now this feels like total freedom to me.

My family doesn't remember I exist now, why should the future be any different?

Straight up cause for celebration! Fame is a vicious double edged sword. A better harsh truth is that fame leads to misery.

At an old cemetery near me, there is a gravestone with no name, just "Mother". Sometimes I think about what a powerful personality she must have had that her family and friends thought this was the most appropriate name for her headstone.

Good

A Few centuries ?? More like 50 or so years

Not for those who do genealogy. I have a list of ancestors stretching back to bc.

Saw a grave stone the other day from a YouTube contributor from the UK, it was the burial plot of a famous comedian (Tommy Cooper), it was a small plot all over grown and forgotten, that brought home to me the passing of time and the shortness of our life!

That’s right. The only thing that will let people know you were alive is your tombstone. And that’s just basic. It doesn’t tell anyone who you were,what you did in life,what you achieved in your life. It’s your birthday your death day,and maybe someone will put on the stone that says beloved whatever you were. A beloved son,daughter,mother,father husband wife child grandparent etc.. that’s it!

For most of us it'll won't take centuries to be forgotten, perhaps only decades or merely years.

Basically no one past your grandchildren will know your name unless they go looking for it.

What is the point to this? I've never met anyone who thought otherwise

More like just 20 yrs after death l'd be forgotten.

Or even a few years after your death

I'll be a skeleton collecting dust at a university then. I've got a rare skeletal deformity, so it would be a waste to just throw it out.

Yes, people you don't about will never know about you. But we all changed the world just by being.

Few centuries? When the last person who remembers you dies, so goes the last memories. You are just a name on a family tree.

Truth!

"Every [one] has two deaths, when [s/]he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his[/her] name." - Ernest Hemingway Or the extended version: "There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time." - David M. Eagleman