While it might sound counterintuitive, the real issue often isn’t perceiving the truth, it’s admitting that it’s true in the first place. “The truth hurts,” “the uncomfortable truth” and other phrases are almost cliche at this point, but this doesn’t make them less correct.
Someone asked, “What’s something that’s painfully obvious but people will never admit?” and people shared their best uncomfortable truth bombs. From the fact that life isn’t fair, to interesting psychological realities, get comfortable, perhaps take some notes as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to share your own ideas in the comments section below.
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Cutting taxes on the rich helps nobody but the rich.
Social media is poison.
Without BP, nobody would know Audi and me. That would be a most horrific tragedy.
It’s not exactly clear who coined the phrase “the truth hurts,” but some variant of it has been around for centuries. While it’s so unhelpfully common, the painful truth is that the truth really can hurt. Psychologists believe that the act and feeling of our preconceived notions being shattered is, ultimately, painful.
It can be hard to admit you are wrong and that, presumably, you wasted a lot of time sticking to incorrect information. Sometimes this can mean overturning an entire worldview which is often such a challenge. Unfortunately, just the idea of reworking everything you know might be too much for some, leading them to simply live in denial. Not just a river in Egypt, as the saying goes.
Looks really, really, really matter.
It's f*****g dumb, and not right, but it just seems to be this constant in life.
The better you look, or the better you MAKE yourself look, you will notice people are more pleasant to you.
This particularly works if you are overweight or disabled. It sucks, and it's unfair, but it's true. You will face less discrimination if you are dressed and groomed beautifully. Not just adequately; beautifully. I've been fat, I'm currently a wheelchair user, and it is noticable.
You can do everything 100% right and be the best in the world, but sometimes it just comes down to pure chance.
That the American 2 party system is not good for the USA.
I'm American and I don't know anyone who refuses to accept this - most people are frustrated with the de facto 2-party system. But the politicians and special interests who buy the politicians and who have the political power are not interested in relinquishing power, and won't implement changes which enable more parties to rise to power. Ranked Choice Voting is the easiest way to do it, which I support 100%.
Adults still have no idea what the f**k they are doing. I never knew that as a child.
THat's the day you become an adult, is the day you realize there is no such thing as an adult, we are all just grown children and no one has any idea what the hell they are doing. We are all still just kids.
Nobody’s success is ever solely their own doing.
My dad's secretary/admin assistant once got home a coffee mug that said "Behind every successful business man is a really great secretary", and it's totally true
Working in the customer services industries (retail, restaurants, etc.) are difficult. Physically, emotionally, and mentally difficult.
And people doing these jobs need and deserve benefits, a living wage that does not depend on tips, and to be treated with courtesy and respect by their customers, and their managers. They also deserve for their jobs to be preformed in an environment that is safe, and as comfortable as possible. Your cashier does not need to stand for an eighthour shift.
People are very often rewarded for being truly terrible human beings.
Selfish, greedy, narcisistic, sociopathic, all traits that will help someone get ahead in life by walking over the backs of others.
A part of it is the increasing laziness of people to not want to have to do the work to punish or hold these people accountable. If you think about politicians... people complain about it constantly, but there aren't enough people doing anything about it. We aren't making laws that punish our media outlets for telling outright lies. No one is standing up for legislation for campaign reform to punish candidates when they are caught lying to the republic. So they get away with their lies.
The vast majority of people know exactly what their problems are and what they would need to do to fix them, they just feel too unequipped or overwhelmed to follow through.
I’m not sure this is true. People frequently misidentify what the root issues of their deepest problems are and, subsequently, fail to find real solutions. We have lots of defense mechanisms that prevent us from seeing ourselves as we really are (protecting our ego).
A lot of the time, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
And sometimes it's what you know about who you know.
Your mental health is directly affected by your physical health.
All those bad things you hear happening to other people can, in fact, happen to you too because you aren't special.
This should be told to those teenagers affected by the "main character syndrome".
Some people will not like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Trying to force a friendship or relationship with someone who doesn't love you back isn't going to work. Yet very few people ever learn this lesson, nor do they want to hear about it either, they think they'll be the one person that can find that magic trick (they won't).
When people say we're better than this, we're really not.
We killed the buffalo to kill the native Americans. We gave them smallpox infected blankets.
We imprisoned our own citizens for having parents born in Japan, but not Italians or Germans.
We freed the slaves only to reenslave with Jim Crow laws.
We've done evil and have to wage war against our worst instincts or we'll do it again.
All countries have done terrible things, not just the USA. The point is, some countries progressed enough to look back and learn from their past, others just don't want to admit they too have a terrible past. Even worse, some still have awful things but don't care. Slavery is the best example of this unevenly progress of the world.
Life is actually easier the more responsible you are.
MONEY CAN BUY HAPPINESS!!!! Those who say it doesn't are shopping in the wrong places
Money can certainly buy stability and far far less strife in one's world. Happiness?
Everybody picks their nose, it's what happens next that sets us apart.
I put in a zip-lock plastic bag, wait until the bag is full, freeze it, allow it to thaw, add a little water and mush together, then sculpt little scenes from classic literature, like Animal Farm, Lord Of The Flies, and The Little Engine That Could. We are not the same.
Big touch screens in cars are incredibly stupid and dangerous.
Yes a lot of people know and admit this, but car makers haven’t gotten the message. Not substantially enough.
Used to be illegal to have a screen in the car where a driver could see it.
You can't actually be anything you want in life. You can try and more power to you for trying it, but your personal skill set and the way your brain works may not enable you to do whatever you can dream up.
True. A Mustang and an F-150 are both vehicles made by Ford. But they are designed for completely different things. One can't match the capabilities or limitations of the other because they were just plain built differently. Play to your strengths.
Sleep is super important and no sleep culture is a stupid way of justifying it.
Most people are parakeets and mindlessly repeat whatever is regurgitated in their environment or social milieu. We're all guilty of it to varying degrees.
I have heard this accusation since I was a child (61 yrs old). Someone please tell me what does it mean to live the opposite way? How do you know that the rugged, individual, free, thinking choices aren't every bit as conforming as any other choices.
Trying to love someone more won't fix the relationship. Hoping simply loving them will solve the problem won't always work. Never assume you're the exception.
After a romance with a colleague 20+ years ago, I said that I will never do something with staff, again...well, the game finally ended in late 2020 with a final score of 4:0 for the staff......I'm telling you one thing...NEVER ever again!!! 🙅🏽 🤷🏽 🤦🏽
Boredom is healthy for promoting thinking.
I'm never bored I can just daydream about hanging out with fictional characters. Been doing that since I was four.
You can make no mistakes and still lose.
You can make nothing but mistakes and still win.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." Captain Jean Luc Picard, TNG.
You might not like it but you need help. Everyone needs help at some point or another whether mentally, emotionally or otherwise.
Most of us are painfully aware of the need at some time but admitting to it and acting on that need goes unheeded.
that life waits for no one. life is so short and it just *ends* and we’re all not gonna matter one day. so move on and do whatever the f**k u want in this life.
Do whatever you want so long as you aren’t harming others and are leaving things better than you found them.
Some relationships are forced. Every day feels like a 2nd job after getting off work. If you find yourself “going to work after work”, you need to start asking yourself if the relationship is really a relationship and not a second job.
Thank god for my second wife for opening my eyes to what a “relationship” really is.
What really sucks is when that second job is taking care of a difficult special needs child that you can't get help for because medical insurance on the US sucks
Some of the dumbest animals on the planet are happier than the smartest people.
Just try to be the best person you can be for the people around you. They’re all you really have at the end of the day.
That people who put others down are insecure.
Good on you for growing and recognizing that :)
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I can't agree with that. Some people are just evil, and not the slightest bit insecure.
That people do pee in the swimming pool.
I think it’s fair to say that we’ve all done this at least once in our lifetimes.
People in power (politicians, the rich, etc) don't give two s**ts about you or your troubles. None of them will change your life. Hell, I'm neither and have my own troubles to deal with. Edit: I am usually caring to neighbors and friends. Two jobs to pay for my wife's cancer bills while also trying to raise our 2 kids because she's in the hospital kind of saps your time and energy.
Especially " Billionaires" pandering for cash to pay their legal bills.
expecting limitless growth from a limited planet will lead to the extinction of our species
Having a baby will not save or fix your relationship.
I used to know two people who were "fix-it babies." Their parents had them in hopes of improving their relationships. Problem is, it backfired. Both came from blended families.
Things as they are, are not at all sustainable.
Humans are destroying the environment...we'll soon be destroying the universe
Propoganda works on smart people too
At first, yes. The difference is, smart people usually figure it out.
Once you're an adult most people don't care about your well being.
If you're attractive, society treats you extremely well.
You can work your a*s off and still not get as far as other people who have network.
Humans HATE to admit to feeling jealous, yet it’s usually very clear to those around you.
sometimes, bc im bad at recognizing my emotions, I actually dont realize im jealous
If you work hard, the guy who works smarter will probably beat you and make it look easy. Work smarter. My policy is, "There is an easier way to di anything, you just have to find it" . Some my disagree but it's gotten me quite far, and I don't intend on stopping.
An easier way to do anything, really? What if the way you do it is already the best possible way because of experience? I don't think people doing hard work don't already try to improve their workload (nurses for instance).
All American news is biased.
*All news is biased. Don't expect that one source to be either accurate or not to possible have some hidden agenda - with important matters always reading from more than one source, and from differing 'viewpoints'.
That the next few decades are going to be a living hell for the majority of people on this planet. What we're experiencing at the moment in terms of freak weather, inequality, and economic and political instability are just the start, and we're going to look back on this period as relatively easy living compared to just about every educated projection of what the future holds for us.
No one ever thinks about you as negatively as you fear they do nor as positively as you hope they do, and no matter what they think about you, it doesn’t last long, and it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Social customs don’t exist outside of the society that created them. Therefore, if enough people get off their asses and actually take action to create societal change it can be very easily achieved.
People love to virtue signal but most of them don’t actually do anything to put their money where their mouths are.
The human condition is one of pain and loss.
There are many things that make up the human condition; pain and loss are but two of them.
Even if you think you wiped yourself totally clean another wipe is always necessary
It's not your business what someone thinks of you.
It is if they're sitting on a fücking jury?
Your hard-earned money losing value is a bad thing
Having easily-made money lose value ain't no picnic either. Or so I've been told.
Life ain't fair, and the world is mean.
The world isn't mean. It's doesn't care. Nor does life. Your get out of life what (to some extent) you put in. And I'm not taking about materially...
People making conversation just for the atmosphere to not be awkward. It’s okay to have silence, but in a close knit area like a car/sauna people will just generate random small talk conversation for effectively no reason at all which makes everyone psychologically more awkward and uncomfortable. Sometimes silence is fine guys. And also awkward eye glances etc just be natural.
Cars destroy countries in more ways than one. Environment aside, it has destroyed communities with redlining. It has made us dependent on paying for “convenience” when it actually destroys actual chances of convenience, ie walkable cities. I’m not saying you can’t have your truck, Kyle, I’m just saying that we shouldn’t be forced into using only one option; ESPECIALLY when countries like the US are so large.
Nobody is the villain in their own story.
Most people that talk about politics are not an expert and don’t know 100% what they’re talking about. Probably not even near 100%. Or even 50%. Including me. Including you.
That’s why I try not to have too strong opinions. Sometimes I fail, but y’know I try. It’d be nice to be more active and knowledgeable in the world and in my country, but I feel like it takes more than a few google searches and news articles to understand the subject.
Except anti-vaxxers. They are 100% selfish idiot a******s. I'm 100% confident of this.
Some people are dumb. Like seriously. No, I'm not even joking. They. Are DUMB. like not mute. Dumb. Like they somehow got past high school but still... How are you even functioning. Go you. Congratulations on fooling the system. Go eat your cheetos and mountain dew. [pats your shoulder].
Highly enlightening. Can't wait for the OP's future announcements on the existence of left-handed people, Mah Jong players, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The laws of supply and demand also apply to housing.
This is obvious, no? Houses in high demand areas are so expensive I don't think anyone could have doubt regarding this point.
There’s a lot of stupid people out there. Seriously, nearly half the population is less than average intelligence.
You are responsible for all your problems in life.
It may not be your fault, and it may be unfair, but you are still responsible.
You ere not responsible for ALL your problems. However, you are responsible for how you deal with all your problems in life.
NFL refs are gambling. To many obvious blown calls missed in the last few seasons. NFL has their own Donaghy situation.
Nah this is just your own stupid sports bias, cause your team didn't win jabroni.
Attraction is pure luck.
Hard disagree. I can absolutely be incredibly homely, but through good hygiene, learning hair and makeup skills, and dressing nice, I usually look pretty attractive to many people. Men can absolutely change their “attractiveness” by finding a good haircut, taking good care of his skin and teeth, learning how to groom himself and facial hair that most flatters him, and learning to dress well.
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These aren't at all "truth"s, they're food for thought. To call them "truth"s just means you have a big ego lol
He also put 'I had an epiphany' in the poll as if that's incredibly likely to happen in this our clickbait comment section.
Load More Replies... Some are not true at all, disinformation. The "poll" doesn't allow for that.
These aren't at all "truth"s, they're food for thought. To call them "truth"s just means you have a big ego lol
He also put 'I had an epiphany' in the poll as if that's incredibly likely to happen in this our clickbait comment section.
Load More Replies... Some are not true at all, disinformation. The "poll" doesn't allow for that.
