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.

In 2020 I was fugly. And now I’ve lost weight, cut my hair, learned makeup and had braces so my teeth are straight. There’s definitly a difference. When I asked out a guy in 2020 i was weird and creepy, and ofc he wouldn’t date me. But now I’m the one getting asked out. And I realized that I was so scared of being ugly that I started over exersizing, because I didn’t want to lose that privilege. Now I’ve realized that it’s ok if I gain a lil weight, and I eat so I have energy. I don’t wear makeup becuase it’s a lot of work, and now I’m trans.

Ugly person here, absolutely can confirm.

Unfortunately, yes. Beauty is both fleeting and subjective though.

Beauty, skin color, even how you dress... as a Minority with Afro Latino roots, I see it every single day...

Should we start a separate thread regarding pretty privilege? I don't think that many people dare to admit that they have benefited from it. It would be interesting to know how people have benefited from it, or the lack of it. How does it affect self-esteem, for example. I myself honestly admit that I have benefited from my appearance. I actively try to avoid it, but it's practically impossible. So what do you think? If someone is interested and has time to ask about it before me, no problem!

It's true....unfortunately

Unfortunately we only judge people on what sensation they give us. If they give us a pleasurable sensation, even just a visual sensation, we tend to like them. If they give you and unpleasant sensation, either visually, cognitively, physically… we don’t like them. It’s a shame but it’s true.

First impressions are everything. Teach your daughters how to wear makeup. They'll get better pay if they look pretty. Yes, that's messed up, but it's usually true.

A sad truth.

I have a good looking friend who admitted it happens frequently to her

Common sense again. The same person in two different bodies, one ugly and one beautiful, will have entirely different lives based only on how they are treated. NOBODY |chooses| ugly when the same thing can be had with beauty. Get over it.

Yes it does. In every facet of life.

very true. nobody ever looked at the ugly girl across the room and said that’s the one i want

Terrible values of our society. But as a former pretty girl, now older, I can tell you no one loves you cause you're pretty. It does not bring happiness.

True!

I find the better looking someone is, the worse they treat people. Not always, but the entitlement makes them look so ugly

Attractive people seem to have a lot more advantages. They don't get overlooked. But TRUE BEAUTY has nothing to do with looks.

That picture doesn't go with the title. Looks creepy AF.

Explain. Define. Value laden concepts. "Beauty" is cultural so this would only apply in certain narrow circumstances, too small a sample to be statistically significant really.

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?

mistakes are learning experiences.

My introverted a$$ disagrees

Because people tend to find 'reasons' and excuses for their behavior.

Dehumanizing someone, considering them an animal, a rabid animal, is how humans justify killing them—-and spinning it that “the rabid animal” actually deserved to be put down. It’s totally f****d up, but it’s what we do. Soldiers in a war are sent there to kill as many of the enemy as possible. That enemy is vilified by being portrayed as less than human, as vicious animals, as deserving to be killed—-and people applaud them for killing more of the enemy than the enemy kills them. I know it’s a way to dissociate, to justify going against everything we’re taught about not killing people so we don’t go insane from committing an act that society would otherwise consider aberrant. But maybe by not dehumanizing others, by retaining the context that we’re all humans and shouldn’t be committing acts of violence against each other, maybe we might finally leave our worst tendencies behind us, and finally take the next evolutionary step—-one that the knuckledraggers continually keep pulling us back from—-by becoming a truly elevated species that doesn’t give in to our more animalistic tendencies. (Hey, I can dream, can’t I?)

Selfless enough maybe

What is reality?

Well, the Buddha said all life is suffering.... And he wasn't fkn wrong....