Reddit, one truth you have a hard time accepting.

iamstephano · 3 months

That I can't think of a new color.

munchbunny · 3 months

I'm not that smart.

DIGGYRULES · 3 months

Kids who do absolutely no school work all year long and who skip half of their classes and disrupt everybody when they do show up will pass for the year.

moosenix · 3 months

In all honesty: Not everything is about me. i.e. what anyone else is doing is not because of me, or due to me, or has anything to do with me- that's their thing, issue, problem or whatever. And vice versa.

MissIsis · 3 months

Some people are really just not nice. Like, not a single part of them cares about other people. Blows my mind that they can live with themselves.

tehrob · 3 months

That there are 7 Billion other people on this planet, all thinking and doing their own thing.

evenstarwen · 3 months

The heart is more fickle than the songs would have you believe. You can promise forever today and mean it with all that you are, but in five months, a year, maybe more...everything has changed. It's hard when it's nobody's fault, just the two of you growing apart as you grow up. Then you don't have some huge, dramatic fight to blame the broken promises on, just two good, decent people who used to love each other and then changed their minds. Or maybe just one person moved away, while the other got left behind, and that's even more hurtful.

From then on, you'll start second guessing yourself, because if you were painfully wrong about something that once felt so absolutely, perfectly right, then what if you're wrong about this, too? You can no longer trust how you feel. But eventually, if you're lucky, maybe you'll learn that after the heart has done its job of falling in love, you'll need the will to stay there. Love isn't just about feelings; it's a day to day commitment to making it last.

When you're young, however, it's so difficult to let go of the myth that when you find that one person, everything will fall into place. Because it's meant to be. Well, there is no "meant to be". You have to make it happen. What you need is to find a person who's worth the work of making it happen.

EDIT: I can NOT believe someone gave me reddit gold for this. And on my cake day, too! Thank you so much, adubbz. That was a wonderful, if undeserved, surprise.

ellister · 3 months

That those beautiful pictures of nebulae are actually colorized.

WadePool · 3 months

That at 44, I'll never be a Dad. Not because of physicality, but circumstance.

faithlessdisciple · 3 months

That I'm bi polar, and not just depressed. Bi polar is forever. I had hoped to get over the depression and be normal.

Atheistical · 3 months

When I lie down to sleep at night, it constantly blows my mind that at any second, I will enter my sleep and the next thing I will be aware of is waking up.

ninjarxa · 3 months

people less intelligent than me have influential jobs in government

IsomorphicAlgorithm · 3 months

That outside my door is real life and behind the computer is not.

Jarroy2 · 3 months

My weiner has stopped growing.

PsychoJunky · 3 months

That my mind will cease to exist once I'm gone.

It's gonna suck.

autocorrector · 3 months

Y'know what, I'm going back to r/aww now.

goodweatherpal · 3 months

I'm growing old.

nick717 · 3 months

My 13 year old son is mentally ill.

xxxtyrantxxx · 3 months

That my dad was really gone

Worst_Idea_Ever · 3 months

I work with children. The worst thing is realizing that you can't help some kids. That they're problems are beyond what you are capable of changing.

And then there are the kids who's issues are beyond what anybody is capable of changing.

Usually, it's not their fault; malnutrition during infancy, awful genetics, etc. But those kids are going to be fucked up forever because that's the hand they were dealt.

But that's not all.

Then there's the implication. Those kids are fucked, and there's nothing that can be done about it. The fact that you or I can be successful/smart/read is just as arbitrary as those kids' situations.

Never feel entitled. Never feel like you deserved/earned something. You didn't. All the causative factors to what you have become are completely beyond your control. You are what you are, the people around you are what they are, and all you can do is make the best of it and try to make a positive impact.

Then there's the other thing I realized a few weeks ago. One kid I have asked me to look up some words. For the sake of anonymity, I won't say what they were. She couldn't even pronounce one of them, but she knew exactly how it was spelled.

She wouldn't tell me where she got the words from, but I figured "Fuck it, I'm always down for kids learning new shit," so I looked them up. They were both different types of cancer. She got the words from her doctor, who said she might have either one. Nobody would tell her what they meant, so she found out from me.

I have no idea why she didn't google them herself, though. Or why she asked me of all people. Maybe she didn't want her friends to know. Maybe she had an inkling that it was something bad and was afraid to do it yourself (like checking your exam grades online, but 100 times worse). Or maybe she made up the whole thing for some reason beyond my understanding.

Regardless, it's popped into my head whenever I've come across something I'm scared of doing, like talking to a girl or facing an interview. How fucking insignificant are those things compared to facing death as a child?

I've got some issues in my life, but frankly, I've got it pretty good. Most people have bigger problems in life than I do, and I have no right to complain about anything.

DrDebG · 3 months

That it doesn't matter with tinfoil if you wrap shiny side out or in.

beyondawesome · 3 months

Everybody dies.

dude_that_sucks · 3 months

my daughter one day will die....

malteasermia · 3 months

I cannot believe that the universe is an infinite size. I just can't. How can something go on forever!?!

Yeah, I'm a physicist.

socket_wrench · 3 months

I'm not a wizard, and I'll never get accepted to Hogwarts.

merrumel · 3 months

Some people willingly hurt children.

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blimeyboop · 3 months

The people you love can also hurt you the most.

GracieAngel · 3 months

Pluto is a planet goddamn it

Deguzzy · 3 months

That people are just assholes because they can or are just hardwired to be. It's not because they are having a bad day or whatever, it's just that they get satisfaction out of making other people feel terrible.

Crimeodial · 3 months

There's a lots of stuff I WONT do. That cute girl I see everyday on my college? Won't meet her. All those great books and music? Won't read/hear it. Finishing and record some of songs I write on guitar? Won't happen. All cool things I could build in my work? Won't happen. All kinds of science that are interesting - biology, physics, maths - you can't know even 0.001% of fun stuff there is to know. Thousands of beautiful places around the world? Won't see 98% of them.

I guess my expectations towards life were a bit exaggereted when I was a kid.

BigToasty · 3 months

Family, friends, and pets that die... I will NEVER see them, or enjoy their company ever again, and all memories fade...

TryingToSucceed · 3 months

My fuckups are at the very least part my fault and oftentimes much more than that, and yet I'd rather bitch about them than fix them.

ThreeAeroplanes · 3 months

That I'm probably not going to be a senator, or otherwise hold a position of wealth, prestige, and power (from which to do good of course!).

The reasons are many, but one of the biggies is that masturbation video floating around that I made when I took some Adderall awhile back. What a dumbass.

Falcorsc2 · 3 months

That the universe is infinite. Like fuck thats a hard one to warp my head around.

also the whole universe is expanding but not techincally into anything(cant wait for the ndt ama)

Bonanza_jellybean · 3 months

I can not understand why America hates teachers.

kevinstonge · 3 months

I'm not a giraffe

HalfysReddit · 3 months

Life is not fair, there is no such thing as karma, and generally assholes win.

No one will reward me for trying to lead a respectable life. In fact it will probably work to my disadvantage.

DMXsays · 3 months

That despite the fact we think of down as down, it really isn't and technically everything is always upside down. We're also rotating constantly and traveling through space pretty fast. The earth is just a speck on a speck attached to a metaphorical piece of sand called a galaxy that is floating in something much much larger than the Earth's biggest ocean.

long_wang_big_balls · 3 months

All good things come to an end

mayihavesomebread · 3 months

Not everyone can be helped.

caradeputo · 3 months

I need a piece of paper to prove that I can do what I'm applying for.

robbity · 3 months

The lyrics to Tiny Dancer. I went years thinking it was "Hold me close I'm tired of dancing."

Fuck Elton John.

Ospov · 3 months

This sentence is false.

Ultra-ChronicMonstah · 3 months

I'm not clever or good looking. To be honest, I accepted the latter a while ago, but I always felt ok because I got by on smarts. But now I'm in college, it's obvious that I'm far from smart.

Mighty_Morphin · 3 months

That in 200 years, no one will know that I had existed.

I will be irrelevant. No one will know the things that I've done or what I liked/disliked. Who I loved. It'll almost be like I had never existed. Like the thoughtpolice had vaporized me.

Of course, I could always try and make a legacy or become famous or whatever. But the likelihood of that is slim. I'm sure that maybe down the line my decendents will try to trace the family tree or whatever. But even then, I'll only be a name.

ignoramusaurus · 3 months

I cant go back and redo things which are so obvious to me now.

If I want to have my own child it will have to live in my stomach and come out of my vagina.

jonnythunderfuck · 3 months

That I will be dead soon.

long_wang_big_balls · 3 months

When I was a small_wang_tiny_balls, I wished 'Sonic the Hedgehog' was real. So bad.

magicmuds · 3 months

Lost my father about a year ago. I don't think my mother or my mother-in-law have too many years left. Soul-crushing.

c_is_4_cookie · 3 months

I will never travel into space.

unicorn22 · 3 months

That you will not get back love from someone when you give it.

spermracewinner · 3 months

We suffer, and we die, and that is that. Everything we did meant nothing. We are all worthless and there is no grand scheme.

L3B · 3 months

I will be alone in this world. The whole family will go before me. :'(

LucilleAustero · 3 months

That there are some very bad people in this world and the things they do is not out of circumstances or illness. They are just evil and enjoy making others suffer. Is not that they don't care. They do it consciously.

dawnnieee · 3 months

LIFE IS GOOD?

bornes · 3 months

That people with less motivation, drive, and/or intelligence/experience will be making more money and be more influential than I am/will. Everywhere. In every job.

Cornelius_Talmage · 3 months

I will most likely never drink Hi-C Ecto Cooler again...

fishfunk5 · 3 months

I don't look as good as I think I do

hybbprqag · 3 months

That control over anything in life is an illusion. No matter how carefully laid my plans, or how strong my convictions, everything I've worked towards in life could be taken from me by a caprice of the universe.

coronalmassejection · 3 months

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

There is no escape from the drudgery of life. I can overlook it most days, but some days it feels like an avalanche. Dirty dishes, laundry, toilet, etc. I know I could hire someone to do these things, but the grind is there, regardless.

----_---- · 3 months

e^ipi = -1

AspieDad · 3 months

One of my kids will never have a future

AWaffleTooFar · 3 months

My life would be easier if I'd been born male.

welike2party · 3 months

That I lost my baby/ that 16 year old girls who can't take care of themselves get to have their babies and I don't. It's kinda selfish and messed up but it is what it is. I know I'm somewhat younger but I'm marrying the man I had my baby with, we own our own home, and were responsible. (minus having a baby at 20)

SuddenDeth · 3 months

Once you are born that's it, you don't get a second pick ... If you don't like your family/culture etc then its fuckin hard to leave.

The fact that nothing in life lasts, if there is afterlife then life loses it's meaning. And if there is no afterlife, then life was wasted.

I will probably die a lot younger than most people, if not, I will probably die alone from old age.

A lot of people stupider/less hardworking than me are doing better in life just because of circumstance.

watevs44 · 3 months

We will continue destroying the Earth. I don't care how many singers/bands make songs about it. I don't care how many documentaries there are. I don't care how much 'awareness you raise'. People won't give a fuck UNTIL they see the negative effects in action. Otherwise they'll shrug it off..

albertdh · 3 months

That money is pretty much what all is about.

Denode · 3 months

God exists. I mean, it's only rational. All the evidence points to it. I was raised an atheist though, and I can't help but have faith in there being nothing. I mean, why would Richard Dawkins write a book about it if it wasn't true?!

DrBat · 3 months

Pokémon aren't real...

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