“Some Bells Can’t Be Unrung”: People Share 39 Hard Truths That May Be Hard To Swallow

Nobody is 100% *good* no matter how much you lie to yourself.

you can’t help people who aren’t willing to try and help themselves to quote a music artist i like “you don’t take the advice you f*****g use me for”

Sometimes things just change, it’s nobodies fault but they change.

Accepting the fact that the person you thought you'd spend the rest of your life with might not be the one.

That lot of people you have are just there for the fun times, when accidents and life trauma happens most of the people you thought of as a safety net will just vanish. Like how you think as a new parent that if something happens to you, there are this village of close friends and tight knit relatives and family that will be there for the kids. It’s really tough to accept the idea that it’s really not like that.

People come and go from your life and sometimes you’re the reason why.

Problems need to be solved. Most of them don't go away if you ignore them.

If you want a great life, great friends and experiences, you have to seek them out for yourself, and nurture them. They aren't randomly assigned to you, and no one else will take care of it but yourself (ofc also partly depending on other people, but you have to have agency)

You will probably have to be ok with losing in nearly all aspects of life

Not everything will happen according to your plan.

That your boss and coworkers won’t care how hard you worked the second you leave the company. Enjoy life. Go outside. Have a picnic. Don’t work so hard.

Some bells can’t be unrung. And you have to live with the fallout from decisions you made and things you did when you didn’t know this fact.

You can't force a cat to cuddle

Doesn’t matter how fit you are, you get old and your body starts to break down. It s***s. Hard.

Bad people win frequently. Some people in leadership position are not good leaders. Some who are not in leadership are good leaders. People will take advantage of your hard work. Many people get to where they are because of nepotism.

That no matter who you are or what you do, the wide, wide majority of people (like me) will be a memory for one generation and then utterly forgotten.

You’re going to not exist in a very short amount of time that will feel like it went by in a blink.

You aren't as unique as you think, so probably you aren't much different compared to the other 100 people that someone may have met that day. The "I'm built different" dialogue goes on everybody's head.

Being cynical is not the same as having healthy skepticism. It doesn't make you seem smart, but rather short-sighted and just angry that the world didn't just award you everything you feel entitled to because you are so gifted.