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Most of the truths we hear and are made to believe are "happily ever after" stuff, but in reality, not everything is that hunky dory. There are certain things that we end up being in total denial with.
The Truth Potato is a wise little spud that tries his best to put you in check with these truths. These bitter truths might have already been quoted by other personalities, but has it come out from the wisest spud ever? No.
Below is some wiseness from the Truth Potato who is occasionally accompanied by his two buds, Gajar Khan(the carrot) and Jorge (the tomato), that you must keep as a daily note to yourself.
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LOttawa 7 years ago
Maybe that's all the person could draw... It's all I could maybe draw...
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
(In case I was being a bit obtuse, by 'black swan' I mean an unexpected piece of evidence that refutes a former perception. I didn't mean a reference to the movie!)
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
It's just a little easier if it's less of the former and more of the latter...
Rose Aroni 7 years ago
Truth Potato says 'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' and potatoes have alotta eyes and see all kinds of stuff unearthed!
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Me 7 years ago
That is so true. The truth is most of us dont matter we could fade away and only few people would care however the world will keep moving and the sun keep rotating. That however doesnt mean go kill yourself you dont matter it means LIVE LIFE TO ITS FULLEST learn what you want, have fun when you want. Of course help society but still.
Kimberly Puchniarz 7 years ago
Dian Ella is obviously a whining, snowflake that thinks communism is a good idea!!
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varwenea 7 years ago
Absolutely. One lies to oneself all the time - regarding talent, skills, looks, fault, influence, etc.
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Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
But it's the main part, since it's the first thing that matters, and people will only care to find out about the rest if that part is good enough. And a lot of people WILL ignore all flaws as long as someone looks good enough. It's much, much harder to find someone who's willing to ignore looks if the rest (personality, skills, achievements etc) are good enough - not to mention it's harder to even have anything else in the first place if you don't have the looks.
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Emma Knappe 7 years ago
To 95% of the people in the world they sure do. It's sad that you have to have a face shaped the certain way, or be really skinny or muscular for people to notice you
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Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
A Failure is only a lesson, its upto you if you learn from it or not.
Daria B 7 years ago
I agree. But sometimes the chance is only one. You take it, you fail it. Change of plans follow.
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Cathy Jo Baker 7 years ago
As a high school teacher, I can relate. I say, "Tomorrow you have a short quiz over this verb" and they hear, "Tomorrow you have a huge exam over every verb on the face of the earth"
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Josie Jones 7 years ago
I can't believe you got three down votes for this? It's crazy but you're right. But warm is a subjective term what's warm to me could be cold to someone else
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Erinboberin 7 years ago
A ex used to call me a human heater cause I radiate heat - I'm almost always burning up!
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Me 7 years ago
I always wondered like do the bad guys think they are good and the good guys think they are good so both sides are bad and good just some are portrayed to be bad and some are bad and now i am rambling haha
Jace 7 years ago
Yes, most "bad guys" do not think of themselves as bad guys. Almost no one thinks of themselves as the bad guy. Even the worst people have some kind of interior monologues and mental gymnastics that let them convince themselves they're really not so bad (and usually it's "everyone else" that's deserving of what is done to them).
Load More Replies... Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
Because good and bad always depend on the perspective.
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Sherly Septiani 7 years ago
if happy ever after did exist, i would still be holding you like this.
athornedrose 7 years ago
i knew someone who described it as "happily after all". even with whatever you go through together, every up and down, at the end of the day, you're still happy to be a part of each other's lives. romantic or platonic, i've known this to be true.
Jaded Queen 7 years ago
Oh it does exist. Once you r dead. Then the happiness begins. Coz u r finally free. After death u don't need a reason to be happy
Erinboberin 7 years ago
I honestly think that the only lasting love is between a mother and child.
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Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
But there are also people who love you that you give no attention to.
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Tarmin Slingerfinger 7 years ago
It can also make it harder to gain a lot of success because you start relying on it and consequently develop bad working ethics
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Jana Renner 7 years ago
Van Gogh. My heart still breaks for him and I love the Dr Who episode where he gets to know how much people will love his art someday.
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Erinboberin 7 years ago
I'm so thankful that cell phones with cameras/video were not a thing when I was in college!
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Josie Jones 7 years ago
No but it doesn't mean less fun either. Whoever wrote this has a lot of issues.
Lonely Dragon 7 years ago
I have to disagree to an extent. If this post contained "does not NECESSARILY mean more fun", then I would totally agree - but more people mean more situations and more potential for personalities to bring out the good within each other. My current friend group is huge (pretty much coincidentally) and I always feel the most fun is when a lot of us are together.
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Tarmin Slingerfinger 7 years ago
I think more people think that way than you might believe. That's just a capitalism trope that's copied in a lot of media but especially in other cultures and just when you ask people the answer is often that they just want hapiness
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Stef Bollen 7 years ago
Michelangelo once said: "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
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Naima Ivansdóttir 7 years ago
whenever this happens, you should think of all the times you used people - even unintentionally.
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alwright 7 years ago
If it makes you feel any better, my week has been pretty crazy too. These are the universe's lessons, and in the end, we come out wiser and stronger. <3
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
I love the juxtaposition of your name and your statement.
Load More Replies... Jace 7 years ago
This is pretty presumptuous that the reader isn't currently experiencing misery.
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zelena 7 years ago
For some it's a lot easier to find things to love about others. Just because you can't find your own self-worth, doesn't mean no one else will be able to find things they love about you.
Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
Exactly. I think it's more true to say that you can't properly and fully love others if you can't love yourself, since you'll always be holding yourself back.
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Jace 7 years ago
I hate this one. This is one of those oft-repeated, meme-type "truthisms" that isn't truth at all. I've known people who have terrible self-worth who are very kind and loving. I don't love myself, either (not effectively; mostly because of a life of being told what's "wrong" with me), yet i have a companion that has indicated she feels loved BY me.
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Daniel C. 7 years ago
Well it's not *my* fault either! Must be the government's fault...
Load More Replies... Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
When you have self esteem problems, it usually works the other way around: we'll find a way to blame ourselves for thing we could do nothing about.
earringnut 7 years ago
this is, in a way, why people are dying of measles in the 21st century.
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
Unless you're a good scientist - then you have a bit more felxibility. :-)
Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
It's not "what we already know", it's "what we already believe in". People only learn new information if it conforms with their pre-existing beliefs. If it doesn't, they either just discard it or downright get offended by it.
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earringnut 7 years ago
"this moment right now" is what your future self is remembering, not when it is remembering.
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CultOfBambi 7 years ago
So what? Who wants to be considered 'useful'? F**k you, you judgemental, starchy m**********r!
Romenriel 7 years ago
I don't find it judgemental. It just wants to think. We should ask our conscience if we are useful.
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Tarmin Slingerfinger 7 years ago
I have a postit on my computer to motivate me to do work that just reads: "Knowledge is pointless without application" :) Same principle
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
A lot of POTUS's will expire the day that Robert Mueller hands down his report...
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I'm So Damn Happy 7 years ago
During my rare moments of complete sanity, like right now, I fear my other self
Jace 7 years ago
F**k you, Truth Potato. You haven't lived my life and don't know why it sucks. It has nothing to do with fear. In fact, my life sucks partially because Effexor XR killed my impulse control and i made some choices that were explicitly against my better judgement (i.e.: ignoring REASONABLE and LOGICAL fears). Now I'm trapped in a situation that was partially made by my lack of impulse control (f*****g psych drugs) and the "fearless" arrogance and selfishness of other people.
Jace 7 years ago
Life taught me that no matter how many good decisions i was making, other people's decisions could ruin every effort i exerted.
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Emz 7 years ago
Kimberly, that is not true. I can think well on my own, make my own desicions and base my opinions on the facts given. Being republican, liberal, socialist, communist etc.. doesn't determine a human being. Persons beliefs or political beliefs are not what make an individual.
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
That's a bugger... I'm feeling a little threatened by some of the Potaotes pronouncements!
Laugh Fan 7 years ago
The tomato said it - 'I believe that Pots is a dumb f**k'. Not my words, the tomato. Has a point.
Load More Replies... Kimberly Puchniarz 7 years ago
Amen!! This is why us conservatives keep winning! Greedy, corrupt AF people believes that if they say something enough times, that it must be true. Quite the opposite is the truth, facts!!
Meowton Mewsk 7 years ago
How is funding corporations to take your rights away winning?
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Aisha La Gatta Pelirroja 7 years ago
I don't agree with this one. Sometimes people stuck in a pointless relationship for their whole life and it's not succeeds at all.
Larkin Elliott (student) 7 years ago
Their whole life? Probably they think they are happy, and that’s enough.
Load More Replies... Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
Depends on how you define success for a relationship. In my opinion, going your separate ways in a friendly manner while having learned and grown as people together is worth much, much more than staying together for many years without caring for each other just because both are too used to the situation to bother to change it. Relationships are so black and white as to be either violent breakup or happily ever after.
Jace 7 years ago
This one is c**p because it is not just unrealistically idealistic, it ignores the existence of multiple concurrent HEALTHY relationships, and it does not account for toxic relationships that people foolishly maintain because they are wrongly believing that leaving the toxic situation would mean they "failed".
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
As cynical as I am, I would love to find an example that disproves this.
Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
There isn't. If you like someone because you get along, that's already self-interest: you like them because of how they make you feel. It's a fact, but it's not really that bad, since both people benefit in the end.
Load More Replies... Rama Llama 7 years ago
There's quite lot of self-interest in literally everything we do. Even if we befriend someone out of pity without enjoying their company, the reason for that is easing our own feelings of pity. It is debated by some, but I don't see that true altruism exists. Nor does it have to - we do seemingly selfless things for ourselves, but that doesn't lessen the good we do.
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Larkin Elliott (student) 7 years ago
But the point is you will have many bad days ahead
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StrangeStars 7 years ago
No, I think YOU missed the point. When one says, "oh, it's good enough," they're skimming by. Passing, but barely. There is always room for improvement. Always. Even if it's just a tiny adjustment, a single word of advice. Nothing is perfect and nothing ever will be.
Load More Replies... iblowsheep 7 years ago
WTF? This misses the whole point of good enough, because sometimes making it better may not be worth the effort or cost.
Jace 7 years ago
This not only misses the point of "good enough", but also ignores that there is a sensible and realistic limit to how much a person should pursue "better". Obsessive pursuit of perfection is harmful in numerous ways. Sure, something could be better, but sometimes that perception is an imagined state that cannot realistically exist, or would waste time, effort, resources, and human health to pursue that next level.
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Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
Not necessarily. Practice is about quality, not time nor effort.
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Petra Rola Cole 7 years ago
Well, first of all, life is short. Just enjoy every moment as if it were the last one.
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zelena 7 years ago
This is just false and a very pessimistic view of life. People CAN make others happy even when they aren't. I just don't even know where the artist gets these "truths" from
Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
It rather depends, though. I think the post is talking about a situation where someone who is utterly dissatisfied with themselves and their lives expects their SO to MAKE them happy, rather than seeking happiness together. That leads to extreme expectations and pressure on the other person, which rarely ends well.
Load More Replies... Jace 7 years ago
How? Easily. By being kind to them, helping them, being caring and loving toward them... etc. This whole "you can't make others happy if you're not happy on your own" is complete and utter b******t. It is yet another "truthy-sounding" meme that comes from s****y self-help books. It is utter bollocks. Stop spreading this c**p.
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Jace 7 years ago
Some things are easier to unlearn than others. Behavior and habit are hard to unlearn. Facts can be learned, displacing b******t, but it takes an admission that the thing you believe wrongly is actually wrong.
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Kenny Kulbiski 7 years ago
After awhile Truth Potato went from kinda funny to a depressing pain in the a*s. I can do depressing just fine all by myself.
Jane Doe 7 years ago
Yeah, I could not get thru all the nihilist potatoes
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Narinder Singh 7 years ago
Truth potato is depressed zen master .but still he is master.says lot of wisdom in few words
Vanessa Meyer 7 years ago
So much truth and wisdom in here... <3 some pics are really helpful to overthink your own behaviour!
Kenny Kulbiski 7 years ago
After awhile Truth Potato went from kinda funny to a depressing pain in the a*s. I can do depressing just fine all by myself.
Jane Doe 7 years ago
Yeah, I could not get thru all the nihilist potatoes
Load More Replies... Narinder Singh 7 years ago
Truth potato is depressed zen master .but still he is master.says lot of wisdom in few words
Vanessa Meyer 7 years ago
So much truth and wisdom in here... <3 some pics are really helpful to overthink your own behaviour!
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