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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group
Life is full of surprises, and nobody can guarantee you that these surprises will only be positive. There are nearly 8 billion folks on this planet, living with their own quirks and personalities, and chances are someone on your way will end up disappointing you. It's safe to say that one of the most crucial reasons why everything is, more or less, emotionally tiring is because we attach our happiness to others.
We struggle to accept our importance, and we only pay attention to how we can satisfy everyone else around us. We put ourselves aside, forgetting that we're supposed to thrive and not survive – though, for most of us, this sort of epiphany comes with age when you finally understand that there's no more room for negativity.
An online user wondered and took it to one of Reddit's communities to ask women to share their own versions of hard-to-swallow pills they've managed to learn over the years. The post received nearly 4K upvotes and 1.5K worth of emotional yet encouraging stories.
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You can do everything right and still get f**ked. You can’t control that.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life." - Jean-Luc Picard
That no one cares. This sounds pessimistic but I really don’t mean it that way. When it comes to medical issues, boundaries with friends, or relationships, no one cares about you the way you do, and no one will advocate for you the way you can. You need to value yourself and take action as if no one else will, because in all likelihood, they won’t.
I tell my daughter this bc I want her to be prepared when I'm not here anymore. I will fight for her tooth and nail but I still don't know exactly what she's going through only she does and she needs to learn how to advocate for herself even if it means a raging angry fight.
Don’t assume people will treat you with the same kindness you treated them with.
You can be every thing they want- and they will want something else.
I am never going to be thin and that’s perfectly fine. Turns out it’s a lot easier to live your life when you’re not constantly consumed with hating your own body!
You can do everything right in college and have honors, connections, and experience, and still not find a career when you graduate
If a man is pushy about small things he will probably be pushy in other ways too.
I wish this was talked about more. I've been married to a "pushy" guy for 20 years. The implication in this post is that it veers towards sexual or physical abuse, but it doesn't always. My husband is neither, but his pushiness has destroyed parts of our life that we can never fully repair. Pushy people aren't all motivated by the same things, but the end result will be horrifying regardless, if unchecked. Rule #1 in life, set clear boundaries. Rule #2, maintain those boundaries at all costs.
Not everyone who comes into your life is meant to stay. Regardless of how much it hurts, sometimes you just have to let people go.
“That’s life And as funny as it may seem Some people get their kicks Stomping on a dream But I don't let it, let it get me down Cause this fine old world, it keeps spinnin' around” -Frank Sinatra
That sometimes you can be the toxic one, even if you have the best intentions. Accountability is important
Your parents are people too with their own issues.
My parent's issues were each other. One night when I was 15, they got into a huge fight. I had had enough of this in my life. I got up, took my mother's car and left. I came back the next morning to get some clothes, and my mom shows up. I told her I was leaving and would not come back until they divorced, and I didn't. She gave me $200 and the car to use. I left town, and they divorced. We were all happier. Parents should never stay together " for the kids." All you end up with is mentally disabled children. I speak from experience.
That misogyny is so deeply ingrained in most cultures that most people don't recognize it when they look it in the eyes.
And that women, acting from internalized misogyny, can be as dangerous to you in non-sexual ways as men.
That there is often little to no correlation between effort and outcome. I've been successful at some things with little effort and a lot of luck. I've poured my entire soul into other things and still utterly failed.
Just because you’re not good at something you love, doesn’t mean you should stop doing it ❤️ you don’t have to be a master at everything you do, if ur a bad singer, sing your heart out, if you’re a bad drawer, draw everyday:) be kind to yourself, you deserve it
There’s going to come a point where the right thing to do won’t feel good at all. There are some things in life that you have to do, and they will break you down and hurt more than anything. But they’re still the right thing. And you will have to live with that.
Your parents don’t actually always know or want what’s best for you, sometimes it is what’s best for them and/or the society they lived in.
After about the age of 25 I realized I had to work to stay healthy - physically and otherwise. Did not see that coming and it felt really unfair at first, then I realized that if that's my bar for unfair then I've had a pretty f**king good life so far and I should count my blessings and go run.
I'm a runner and it gets harder every year to keep going. Got a peloton to see if that's easier. It's not. Exercise and watching your calorie intake is the only thing that keeps you feeling good at every age. You will still go through middle age and gain weight and have pain and have some issues w your health but taking care of yourself is all you really have that helps ease aging
I overthink too much. Don't overthink everything or you will make yourself miserable.
People still dont owe you anything even if you're willing to risk your life for them. It's still their decision if they're gonna lift a finger for you and you shouldn't feel entitled for anyone's time and attention.
Financial freedom is the only freedom
It's truly the only way you can be independent and not have to rely on anyone
Everyone is an island... but no one lives in a vacuum.
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"Freedom" is the most nebulous word in the world. I ask "Freedom from what?", while others are dying or killing in the name of what they call "freedom", something they can't even define.
I think many people didn't read the title of the post. It is from women, about being a woman...and that to be free, a woman must be financially free. At least that's how I understand it :)
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Intellectual freedom, emotional freedom sexual freedom, gender freedom, racial freedom, religious freedom... I'm not rich. I struggle financially. I don't have kids so I don't have that obligation but money isn't a freedom for me. No. It is most certainly not the only freedom. And so very far from being the most important.
And yet they are all to a certain degree dependant on your financial freedom to maintain
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That can mean having a lot of money, or having few needs so you’re not tied to making a lot of money. A friend of mine does this well. She works part of the year, rents a room, can fit all her belongings in a pickup truck, and has a ton of free time and travels. She just just hiked the PCT last year (minus the parts closed from wildfires)!
This is a great balanced view. I think I was stuck in the lots of money view. Good to read this, thanks!
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Even if people then turn to slaves to their jobs/work for "finantial freedom"??
Just think about that question for a minute there.
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The love of money is the root of all money. Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's
This is definitely false. Financial security for most people is a myth, and even wealthy people can be enslaved mentally, emotionally, legally, and otherwise.
See #12. you can do everything right and still fail. Financial freedom is not a choice, it's just luck. For example, my mother grew up in a fundamental religion and believed she would go to hell if she didn't have a bunch of kids and then her husband divorced her. She made the "right" choice with the knowledge she had and she's pretty much f***d until they all grow up and move out. This could easily happen to someone else with a good job if they have a death in the family or an expensive disease.
They say money can't buy happiness but it sure can make things a lot better when you don't have to stress and worry about paying the bills and feeding your family
If you're unhappy without money, you'll be unhappy with it as well. Just wait.
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Being free from financial concern is freedom, but one can have lots of money and still be enslaved by greed or enslaved by the fear of losing one''s money. Perhaps having enough money is freedom, but I'd rather be enlightened, then there would be no fear or attachment to anything. In regular ( non-enlightened) life one needs enough provision, most people crave more than enough, so they are not free.
Disagree! Freedom of speech and thought, freedom to love who you love, freedom to practice your faith openly, freedom to be the gender you are, freedom of leisure time and relaxation, freedom to walk alone without fear of rape or murder, freedom to vote and freedom of an educated mind (the greatest independence of all to me). I could go on.
True. It helps, though, to be happy with less money. The less you need, the easier it is to achieve that freedom
I've lived with depression for year Take meds for it llt changedLike a memory a song or just the weather then you are back in that space you just got out of day by day z You have good times Then something can come along
You can be poor and still have financial freedom. Financial freedom to me is paying my own way. I don't have to be in a relationship because of finances.
Amen!!!! I never knew how freeing until I was able to retire early from earning money with my digital currency savings plan!
Freedom is the only freedom. If you are not locked up then you are free!!! Free to work and live as you choose so be happy if you are strong and healthy you have everything you will figure out the rest as you go along.
Not only there is zero of true freedom within monetary system, there is only slaviest slavery where masters too are the slaviest slaves themselves. Both sides are junkies really.
This one is a joke and is entirely based on a capitalist ideology. Money means as much to your happiness as you want it to. In truth, money is merely an excuse. Happiness doesn't come from money, it comes from doing what you wish with the time you have. Money doesn't grant this. Money is a means to an end. The end result is what you actually want. When people wish for money, it means they don't actually know what they want out of life, OR they aren't taking the proper steps to get it. Grow up and you'll realize this with time. Or you'll spend your whole life chasing your tail like a dog.
Yes, but it's still only financial freedom. Money is portable, negotiable power, it is vital that you are financially independent if you want to attempt to achieve total freedom, but it can only buy you so much. There are many other freedoms you need to be truly free (physical freedom, freedom of speech, religious freedom, educational freedom, etc, etc) and unfortunately there will always be someone out there trying to deny you your freedoms...
No. Freedom goes so far beyond finances. Most of us Americans don't know what it's like not to have freedom. Talk to a former POW or someone who escaped from a communist country back in the day, or a political prisoner in Afghanistan. We've got it easy.
And it's way easier to get out of those places with...you guessed it!
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Right on! The only way a person can be & not have to worry about not having enough money
This!! YES! Don't go into debt except when necessary. My finance professor would say, "if you cannot afford it in cash, you cannot afford it." This didn't mean you had to pay with cash, just accountability.
So true. I've told my son this since he was a baby. He has goals for a successful future now.
You can't truly believe in this statement and also believe in things like slavery or the Holocaust
Mentally Free is The Only Freedom. When you control your mind & stop listening to the bs , You are truly free & the money will find you
It is really not that esoteric an issue. Can you finance yourself? yes/no
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Very few people care about you. Like at all. Even most of your acquaintances and relatives; often even so-called friends.
Exceptions exist for a select small group of "special" people.
It always baffles me at how much love and respect I feel for friends or distant family, and how little I get back. It hurts me to know that they don’t care about me like I care about them and it confuses me, like am I a bad person? Is that why they don’t return my respect. You would think it’s just common courtesy
People will think the worst of you no matter how good you try to be.
You can wait until circumstance motivates you out of your bad habits, but banking on future motivation risks you wasting most of your life.
You can count on both, just don’t let yourself wait too long to get motivation.
That seeing someone's potential means nothing unless they try to fulfill it on their own
Yeah, and just because someone is good at something doesnt' mean they have an interest in pursuing a career out of it or will do anything for you for free. If you really value someone's craft, then put value in it in return by paying them.
That the only person who’s gonna take care of me, is me.
If they like you, you won’t be confused
I'm always confused. Throwing another human in the mix doesn't make my brain work
Only you can be the hero you needed as a kid.
Ooh, it's called reparenting in some therapy models. Learning to talk to yourself in a nurturing parent voice and learning to advocate for yourself is hard but worth it.
"You let them treat you that way."
-My therapist on the takers in my life of giving endlessly.
And we do. For whatever reason, we go above and beyond to help. Over and over again. I finally had to delete a couple of people from my life, literally. It's hard, but I am better for it.
Looks do matter. To be successful, you need to put effort in your appearance to get the proper respect you deserve. Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg may be able to get away with wearing the same shirt and jeans but if you do it, no one will take you seriously
Be clean and do your job. Nobody notices you as much as you notice yourself.
He's just not into you
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So many 'You can only trust yourself' type of posts. I find it a little sad (in a non-condescending way).
We are social creatures. We need to trust others. So these are just negative views. Instead of being narcissistic jerks we need to be loving and understanding. Yes people have bad days but as a whole we shouldn't be doing things that hurt others. This "me first" mentality is destroying humanity. Continue being kind, hold the door for someone, smile and cut out the sarcasm the world will be better for it.
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You can get used to anything. Don't get used to the thing that makes you complacent.
I had a friend, she was chilling with another person, starting a relationship. One day her buddy came home from work and told my friend that if she was going to use her things, she needed to put them back the way she found them. My friend was upset and hurt. I spent almost a week validating her feelings <——key word.. When the time was right I asked her…”do you want to know how I perceive this issue, having not dog in the fight”, she said yes. I told her she was 100% in the wrong and why, and asked her to put herself in her buddy’s position. She stared at me wide eyed, picked up the phone to immediately start to apologize to her buddy. Some people need those feelings validated and expressed before they can see or accept reality. That’s okay, it was her process. Not good, not bad, not right, not wrong. The process just is, it’s what you do with the knowledge you gain that matters. Some of us can do better, some are doing all they can, some don’t give a s**t.
Some of these are mildly subjective I think. EDIT: lol VERY subjective
You can't make someone love you more by trying to make them love someone else less.
This is a real pessimistic way of looking at life and people. We need to trust others, love one another, dare to be loved and hurt by others (Because this is how we learn)and most of all dream big! Life's to big for this negative pessimistic point of view.
Learn to say "No", professionally and socially. People want your time, money, or emotions. While helping can be what makes you happy, sometimes it's what drains you.
People need to learn they can't change others. They are entitled to their own opinions and to be who they want. You can only change your own actions to become the best person you can. Once we all figure that out, we'll all be in a better place.
I love how it blames men mostly.. How about you guys tell little girls stop being wh#$- or stop idolizing musical woman who are half naked always.. Stop thinking only fans makes you independent.. No showing your body just because it's yours doesn't make it right.. It's no feminism it's stupidity.. Stop blaming men and start looking in the mirror.. sad to see these post... They always blame some race or gender ands it pathetic
Oh. This hit a nerve ehh? Guilty conscience? Been accused of being an ass much? Wondering why women don't like you?
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You are not good thru and thru, and neither are you totally evil. Everyone has both good and bad sides. The trick is to work to strengthen your good sides and make the bad sides smaller.
These people should move to republican land. None of that bad stuff happens in republican land.
These people should move to republican land, none of that bad stuff happens in republican land.
This could have been an article to people, not just women. #31, people will try to divide you into tribes to increase their control over you.
Life wouldn't be that difficult if you ladies would just accept the facts women belong in the home, behind the kitchen. Raising the children and instilling core values and morals. This is a man's world. And you lack the strength to change that. Why did we change what was working for hundreds of years. Capitalism happened. A cheaper work force, means more profits for big businesses. Corporate Capitalist Pigs. Women had a moment, but they squandered that chance. Now it time to rein that s**t in!
if you read all of these and feel like garbage afterwards, you might just not be one of those people who experience these issues every day. we need to accept that people aren’t always going to be there for us and that our issues aren’t going to disappear bc we had a good day. these will lead to more healing than you want to believe. ik i sure need to hear it from time to time. reminds me that i can’t expect the world to heal bc i want it to. i can only do what i can do and that’s okay.
So of this blend in together, or just a tad ignorant, all of this applies to all sexes to not just women. Still fun read on what average people think. =:3
It's not that other people suck. It's just that you can't change anyone but yourself. If you need a situation you're in to change, you need to change yourself. Because you are the only one that you CAN change.
The idea that, "There is someone for everyone", is a load of crap. I'm a nice and decent human being with my sh°t together. I don't brag about it, feel entitled, or think I'm owed anything. It's just who I am. Yet, I've been alone most of my life. Women are not attracted to me, even though I'm average looking. I just can't understand why the a**holes of the world are the ones who end up in relationships, and are the ones who women are attracted to. No wonder why some women think that all men are jerks.
So many 'You can only trust yourself' type of posts. I find it a little sad (in a non-condescending way).
We are social creatures. We need to trust others. So these are just negative views. Instead of being narcissistic jerks we need to be loving and understanding. Yes people have bad days but as a whole we shouldn't be doing things that hurt others. This "me first" mentality is destroying humanity. Continue being kind, hold the door for someone, smile and cut out the sarcasm the world will be better for it.
Load More Replies... You can get used to anything. Don't get used to the thing that makes you complacent.
I had a friend, she was chilling with another person, starting a relationship. One day her buddy came home from work and told my friend that if she was going to use her things, she needed to put them back the way she found them. My friend was upset and hurt. I spent almost a week validating her feelings <——key word.. When the time was right I asked her…”do you want to know how I perceive this issue, having not dog in the fight”, she said yes. I told her she was 100% in the wrong and why, and asked her to put herself in her buddy’s position. She stared at me wide eyed, picked up the phone to immediately start to apologize to her buddy. Some people need those feelings validated and expressed before they can see or accept reality. That’s okay, it was her process. Not good, not bad, not right, not wrong. The process just is, it’s what you do with the knowledge you gain that matters. Some of us can do better, some are doing all they can, some don’t give a s**t.
Some of these are mildly subjective I think. EDIT: lol VERY subjective
You can't make someone love you more by trying to make them love someone else less.
This is a real pessimistic way of looking at life and people. We need to trust others, love one another, dare to be loved and hurt by others (Because this is how we learn)and most of all dream big! Life's to big for this negative pessimistic point of view.
Learn to say "No", professionally and socially. People want your time, money, or emotions. While helping can be what makes you happy, sometimes it's what drains you.
People need to learn they can't change others. They are entitled to their own opinions and to be who they want. You can only change your own actions to become the best person you can. Once we all figure that out, we'll all be in a better place.
I love how it blames men mostly.. How about you guys tell little girls stop being wh#$- or stop idolizing musical woman who are half naked always.. Stop thinking only fans makes you independent.. No showing your body just because it's yours doesn't make it right.. It's no feminism it's stupidity.. Stop blaming men and start looking in the mirror.. sad to see these post... They always blame some race or gender ands it pathetic
Oh. This hit a nerve ehh? Guilty conscience? Been accused of being an ass much? Wondering why women don't like you?
Load More Replies... You are not good thru and thru, and neither are you totally evil. Everyone has both good and bad sides. The trick is to work to strengthen your good sides and make the bad sides smaller.
These people should move to republican land. None of that bad stuff happens in republican land.
These people should move to republican land, none of that bad stuff happens in republican land.
This could have been an article to people, not just women. #31, people will try to divide you into tribes to increase their control over you.
Life wouldn't be that difficult if you ladies would just accept the facts women belong in the home, behind the kitchen. Raising the children and instilling core values and morals. This is a man's world. And you lack the strength to change that. Why did we change what was working for hundreds of years. Capitalism happened. A cheaper work force, means more profits for big businesses. Corporate Capitalist Pigs. Women had a moment, but they squandered that chance. Now it time to rein that s**t in!
if you read all of these and feel like garbage afterwards, you might just not be one of those people who experience these issues every day. we need to accept that people aren’t always going to be there for us and that our issues aren’t going to disappear bc we had a good day. these will lead to more healing than you want to believe. ik i sure need to hear it from time to time. reminds me that i can’t expect the world to heal bc i want it to. i can only do what i can do and that’s okay.
So of this blend in together, or just a tad ignorant, all of this applies to all sexes to not just women. Still fun read on what average people think. =:3
It's not that other people suck. It's just that you can't change anyone but yourself. If you need a situation you're in to change, you need to change yourself. Because you are the only one that you CAN change.
The idea that, "There is someone for everyone", is a load of crap. I'm a nice and decent human being with my sh°t together. I don't brag about it, feel entitled, or think I'm owed anything. It's just who I am. Yet, I've been alone most of my life. Women are not attracted to me, even though I'm average looking. I just can't understand why the a**holes of the world are the ones who end up in relationships, and are the ones who women are attracted to. No wonder why some women think that all men are jerks.
