30 Hard Truths People Only Realized Later In Life, But Wish They Had Known Sooner

Best one yet. Many people get stuck in their own views and echo chambers. Sometimes it's good to do more research and look at arguments from the other side. Maybe you will stick with your views but maybe you see there is more than you first thought.

Same goes for the reverse: Don't set others on fire to warm yourself.

Also always remember that children can’t save an unhappy marriage

Don’t hang on to toxicity. Period. Be it freinds , siblings, parents, partner, employer etc

I didn't do well in school, and I still don't do well. Where does that leave me?

Conversely, doing poorly in school doesn't mean you'll do poorly outside school.

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Oh yes! As they say "It's not what you know, it's who you know".

yes. I know I'm smart, and I know I won't need half of what I'm learning in school later in life. but my parents can't accept that. they're always talking about my grades and school performance, yet refuse to get me the medication to help me do better—one of the many reasons why I'm cutting them off when I turn 18.

I had a higher IQ than any of my teachers. So there were some of the crappier teachers I played pranks on just to make them look like fools! And they never figured out who did it! But Yep it was me!

I was mediocre in school. Once I was out I flourished an became the eeal me. RN for 35 yrs

I did nothing during high school. I was the poster child for class clown with a bad home life. 20 years later and I just graduated with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Sometimes the reverse is true.

There’s school smart and life smart. I am the first but not the second. I wouldn’t survive a day on my own but I’m working on it

There is so much more to life than formal schooling offers, There is so much more to life than formal schooling offers, although formal education does have its merits!

Knowing how school works made it easier for me to be a student. Knowing how school works made my career much easier - I was a teacher.

...in fact many of the people who did well in school will be those that break later in life. As it is not everything that is taught in school, spending too much time and effort on school work might mean that you have to give up on other activities that might teach you other important life skills. The tasks that you are given in school and the tasks you'll encounter in life is often structured very diffently, e.i. real life seldom comes with a coriculum or in the form of a standard task with only one right solution that can be found in a book and be memorised. So if you are used to always doing well on the kind of tasks you meet in the school, not being able to perform in real life can be extra tough as nothing will have prepared you for this.

I try to assume nothing when it comes to other people.

some people fall in love with the wrong people sometimes,it’s alright Listen to this song

There are literally 8 billion people in the world and none of them act or think the same whatsoever , don’t try to mimic any of them

Dentist appointments are damn costly in us so make sure you don’t need them

No one deserves a pedestal until they prove it.

All my days seem to be "good old" now that they are in the past. Wish I could say this has taught me something...

*Cough in auto immune betrayal*

This happens a lot- people cancelling themselves.

People can be extremely unpredictable

Buttercup?

Blood or not

My most hated term "good enough". But yeah, designers are never finished, we tend to abandon work because otherwise we would go insane.

Yup. My grandmother who witnessed 3 wars died at the age of 105 in a "poor area" by western standards, just by living in a village up in the mountains which requires lots of exercise, and eating nothing but a bit of meat and vegetables from her garden (no processed food)

Those types of people are insufferable. They're everywhere.

Please yourself, and that's enough.

I've got to say; those 28 years must have been hard. Look at all those grey hairs!

...and we never quite get there, do we?

I got a lot of this from my mom when I was in school. She did a lot to try and sabotage what I was working toward and tried to keep me from anything I was passionate about. Missed out on a lot of opportunities because of her. My grandmother stepped in and had my back when she could but was only able to do so much.

You can afford to save?

Easier saiid than done :(

Correction- people are going to hate you for it but thats alright.

We may not be big, but we are all pandas :)

As someone who has been "toxic" or at least not not cool, I can relate. It's more being very very self-centered. It took me time (and people not cutting ties with me) to realise my behaviour was not justified, but during the whole ordeal I was convinced I was in my right

As one of of the 90% women with endometriosis who were diagnosed too late, to the point where I might never be able to have kids: if periods hurt a lot, if bleeding is consequent to the point it prevents from doing usual tasks --> go see a doctor, insist and ask for an echography to be performed. It is not normal to endure significant pain when having your periods.

you are assuming we are all trust fund beneficiaries or multimillionaires. Travel is expensive. For an South African (richest people in african mainland) to travel to the nearby african island of Mauritius, costs about R 30k/person excluding flights, so add another 8k or so. Say a family of four. That's R 184k. Many if not most families in South Africa earn that amount in an entire year. In effect, the cheapest overseas holiday in our country is a full year's salary for a typical earner. You will see stats online that the average salary is 24000 zar/month. That's not true. It's true for the middle class. Most people (about 80%) of our country are borderline poverty line. The reason the average is high is that we have economic apartheid: the middle class earn about 24k/mo but the cleaners, street sweepers etc., are between 4k and 16k./mo. Yes, 4k as in USD $200 per month. Exploitation of the workers!!!