One of the wise people of antiquity once said that everyday experience is a collection of mistakes accumulated by a person throughout their life. A person learns from some mistakes, some they simply try not to repeat, and some of these mistakes they alas repeat all throughout their life.
Recently, the so-called "Letters to Myself" genre has been very popular on the internet, where famous and not-so-famous people describe different mistakes they made at a young age and tell what they would do differently taking into account the knowledge that they have now. Unfortunately, in one's teen years, it is difficult to believe and accept some of the life facts that seem so obvious later.
A few days ago, a question was asked in the AskReddit community directly on this topic: "What are teens today not ready to hear?" As of today, the resulting thread has about 44.2K upvotes and over 26.7K various comments, where people in adulthood and older tell which life lessons the youth should definitely learn.
Yes, the thread looks a bit boomerish, but the ancients didn't say in vain: "Forewarned is forearmed." Bored Panda has put together a list of the most popular comments from the original thread for you, so please feel free to scroll to the very end, mark the submissions you like the most and of course share your own life lessons in the comments.
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#2
Playing music on your speakers in public areas makes you look like a complete douchebag. Nobody likes it but you.
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438points
#5
There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.
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415points
#6
In the adult world, getting into fights doesn’t make you look cool, it just makes you look stupid.
401points
#7
To the ones who ride the public bus in my city, specifically: nobody else wants to hear whatever TikTok you’re watching. Buy some headphones.
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401points
#8
It's not your duty to judge others. Just take care of your own s**t.
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398points
#9
You won't 'feel' different when you're older, or have kids. You'll just be you, it's weird.
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391points
#10
as much as you want to be unique, outspoken and be able to be you 100%, its just not that realistic.
as a queer poc millennial it took me a long time to learn that you gotta learn to pick your battles, read the room, and know that not every space is a space thats made for you.
369points
#11
Putting every aspect of yourself online is unsafe. Nobody needs to know your list of triggers or your address or your blood type
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368points
#13
One day you too will be old and uncool.
And it'll happen faster than you think.
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361points
#14
Social media will give you too much of a superiority complex and hanging around people who enable you will f**k you up later in life.
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342points
#16
Not everybody can be an internet sensation, somebody has to drive the dump truck
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338points
#17
It is perfectly fine to not know something. It’s OKAY to not know! Stop shaming and bullying people because you learned about something before they did. Social media is not the real world and acting like it is will only make people not want to be around you.
EDIT: I am not talking about ignorance. I’m talking about laughing when people ask a question in class, the “How do you not know that?” crowd, the mocking of people into never asking another question out of fear of ridicule and humiliation.
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323points
#18
You guys know how the attractive and wealthy kids at school seem to just get life handed to them on a silver platter?
Get used to it.
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311points
#19
Jobs aren’t meant to always be fun/your dream, sometimes you have to work a job you hate to stay afloat.
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308points
#20
Social media is not reality and your entire life should not revolve around it.
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303points