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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group

Life is full of surprises, and nobody can guarantee you that these surprises will only be positive. There are nearly 8 billion folks on this planet, living with their own quirks and personalities, and chances are someone on your way will end up disappointing you. It's safe to say that one of the most crucial reasons why everything is, more or less, emotionally tiring is because we attach our happiness to others.

We struggle to accept our importance, and we only pay attention to how we can satisfy everyone else around us. We put ourselves aside, forgetting that we're supposed to thrive and not survive – though, for most of us, this sort of epiphany comes with age when you finally understand that there's no more room for negativity.

An online user wondered and took it to one of Reddit's communities to ask women to share their own versions of hard-to-swallow pills they've managed to learn over the years. The post received nearly 4K upvotes and 1.5K worth of emotional yet encouraging stories.

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group You can do everything right and still get f**ked. You can’t control that.

definitive-airwave , Nenad Stojkovic Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group That no one cares. This sounds pessimistic but I really don’t mean it that way. When it comes to medical issues, boundaries with friends, or relationships, no one cares about you the way you do, and no one will advocate for you the way you can. You need to value yourself and take action as if no one else will, because in all likelihood, they won’t.

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Don’t assume people will treat you with the same kindness you treated them with.

motherofsmallones , Brian Evans Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group You can be every thing they want- and they will want something else.

grianmharduit , My United States of Whatever Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group I am never going to be thin and that’s perfectly fine. Turns out it’s a lot easier to live your life when you’re not constantly consumed with hating your own body!

s**tforcompassion , Jamie Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group The world isn't fair and sometimes people just suck.

Shallow-ishPuddle , Gareth Williams Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group You can do everything right in college and have honors, connections, and experience, and still not find a career when you graduate

everythinglatte , Jacob Roeland Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group If a man is pushy about small things he will probably be pushy in other ways too.

SnooTigers6225 , Marco FrontSoldier Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Not everyone who comes into your life is meant to stay. Regardless of how much it hurts, sometimes you just have to let people go.

Imperfect-Magic , Quinn Dombrowski Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group That sometimes you can be the toxic one, even if you have the best intentions. Accountability is important

lioness-2208 , SNappa2006 Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Your parents are people too with their own issues.

underscorehey , stanze Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group That misogyny is so deeply ingrained in most cultures that most people don't recognize it when they look it in the eyes.

And that women, acting from internalized misogyny, can be as dangerous to you in non-sexual ways as men.

pucemoon , Mike Maguire Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group That there is often little to no correlation between effort and outcome. I've been successful at some things with little effort and a lot of luck. I've poured my entire soul into other things and still utterly failed.

ultimate_ampersand , pennino Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group There’s going to come a point where the right thing to do won’t feel good at all. There are some things in life that you have to do, and they will break you down and hurt more than anything. But they’re still the right thing. And you will have to live with that.

fill_the_birdfeeder , Sascha Kohlmann Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Your parents don’t actually always know or want what’s best for you, sometimes it is what’s best for them and/or the society they lived in.

DisneyUp , Joe Shlabotnik Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group After about the age of 25 I realized I had to work to stay healthy - physically and otherwise. Did not see that coming and it felt really unfair at first, then I realized that if that's my bar for unfair then I've had a pretty f**king good life so far and I should count my blessings and go run.

thewhitewallisblue , Nenad Stojkovic Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group I overthink too much. Don't overthink everything or you will make yourself miserable.

Ian Sane , Ian Sane Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Depression doesn't go away.

nosiriamadreamer , Nenad Stojkovic Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group People still dont owe you anything even if you're willing to risk your life for them. It's still their decision if they're gonna lift a finger for you and you shouldn't feel entitled for anyone's time and attention.

adobocute , jeanbaptisteparis Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Financial freedom is the only freedom

The-Clumsy-Pirate , David Baron Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Very few people care about you. Like at all. Even most of your acquaintances and relatives; often even so-called friends.

Exceptions exist for a select small group of "special" people.

VeronicaMarsupial , Ricardo Moraleida Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group People will think the worst of you no matter how good you try to be.

hopkins_notakpopper , TheOneShot Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group You can wait until circumstance motivates you out of your bad habits, but banking on future motivation risks you wasting most of your life.

coconutfi , Rennett Stowe Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group That seeing someone's potential means nothing unless they try to fulfill it on their own

ScorpioWaterSign , Mike Burns Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group That the only person who’s gonna take care of me, is me.

msha7 , Andrew Kuchling Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group If they like you, you won’t be confused

Persiope , freestocks.org Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Only you can be the hero you needed as a kid.

Sanaria21 , Giovanni Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group "You let them treat you that way."

-My therapist on the takers in my life of giving endlessly.

ThankGrace , arda Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Looks do matter. To be successful, you need to put effort in your appearance to get the proper respect you deserve. Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg may be able to get away with wearing the same shirt and jeans but if you do it, no one will take you seriously

VariousGift9742 , Lauras Eye Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group He's just not into you

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group At work - I will have to work twice as hard for half the respect.

Three3Jane , Ankur Gulati Report

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My instinct was right and i let others talk me into ignoring it for years.

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group Sleeping with someone too early into the relationship probably isn’t a good idea.

cookieana , Rebecca Siegel Report

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group That our bodies have an expiration date to have children. The longer you wait, or the longer it takes to find a partner that you can actually see your life with, the higher the risk it is to try and conceive.

Sometimes I also believe women often feel pressured to have kids before they are truly ready (mentally, physically, financially), just because the chances to have a healthy baby are higher at a younger age.

cucumberpincone , Britt-knee Report

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Being single over 25 will lead people to harshly judge you. Being single over 30 will lead to even more criticism and people will try to shame you

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30 Important But Hard-To-Swallow Life Truths, As Shared By Women In This Online Group He doesn’t want to just be your friend

ItsjustaFearBoner , Vincent Diamante Report

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Darja is a Content Creator at Bored Panda. She studied at the University of Westminster, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Media Practice. She loves photography, foreign music and re-watching Forrest Gump.

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Susie Elle 2 years ago

So many 'You can only trust yourself' type of posts. I find it a little sad (in a non-condescending way).

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Did you hear that? 2 years ago

We are social creatures. We need to trust others. So these are just negative views. Instead of being narcissistic jerks we need to be loving and understanding. Yes people have bad days but as a whole we shouldn't be doing things that hurt others. This "me first" mentality is destroying humanity. Continue being kind, hold the door for someone, smile and cut out the sarcasm the world will be better for it.

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