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We all romanticize something. For a long time, I wished I had lived a few centuries earlier, when things were simpler, and you didn't need to fight with your neighbors over a parking spot. But then I read about children working at factories, cholera, ridiculously bad medical care, and suddenly I wasn't too psyched about it. Who could've thought that the past wasn't as glamorous as the movies made me believe?

Turns out, talking about crooked mirrors is quite popular on Reddit. We at Bored Panda recently discovered three posts (1, 2, 3) with essentially the same question: What does society romanticize way too much? And judging from the abundance of upvotes and comments, we thought it might be a good idea to share some of the replies with you, dear Pandas. From eating disorders to workaholism, continue scrolling to check out the most popular ones and let us know if you agree with them in the comments.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Acts of charity that shouldn't be necessary.

Like a kid who saves up their lunch money to pay their best friends medical bills or something. Sure, it's admirable, but our response shouldn't be 'awww' it should be, 'why the frick is this necessary, why are we letting our governments fail us?'

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Celebrities. Fake people living fake, manufactured lives, yet the media insists that we care what they think, what they wear, who they're voting for, who they're f**king. All because they were born with some genetic gift, or born into the right family, or some other twist of fate thrust them into the limelight. It used to just be Hollywood types. Now we have this whole generation of insta models, reality stars, and other "influencers" whose only contribution to society is their shameless self promoting BS. And people eat it up. Meanwhile we have skyrocketing rates of teen depression and suicide because kids are bombarded with these impossible standards of beauty and popularity in their formative years.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Giant weddings. Why are you putting yourself into crazy debt and through a bunch of stress for a giant event you probably won't even be able to fully enjoy? Save your money, elope and buy a cool house or go take an awesome vacation.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Small weddings are infinitely more fun, especially for the hosts.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Mental illness. It's not a fashion accessory, it's a disease none of us want to have. You're not cool, trendy or suddenly super [friggin] interesting because you claim to have a mental illness

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! Like those TikTok teens (questionably) saying they have depression like it's a quirky personality trait! It's not and is serious. Most people don't think they're depressed enough to get help. I'm speaking from experience here.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Public marriage proposals, where the other party is basically shamed into accepting.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marriage should be talked between both members. The idea of men asking women is just absurd. You are a couple, a team and both should talk about it.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Cancer. I'm not brave, strong or even a hero/inspiration.

I just don't want to die.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever romantacizes cancer is the biggest moron on earth. I hope you are doing fine, bless you.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Controlling/abusive relationships. Twilight and 50 shades I’m looking at you.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread War

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. It's not just guns and games. It's famine, starving children, death and debt.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Workaholism, the grind, hustle culture. It's not for everybody, and it doesn't mean someone is a failure to not devote their life to making as much money as possible. What's the point of making money if you have no time of your own to enjoy it? I work about 55 hours a week, and I feel like I have no time at all to actually enjoy my life. I don't know how people who are constantly hustling do it.

If it's for you, cool. I'm not casting aspersions. Maybe that is how you get enjoyment out of life. That's awesome and in some ways I'm a bit envious. But it should not be some ideal or standard.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread "Gangster" lifestyle. Nobody in the hood wants to be there.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now this is true and needs to be higher up. Lots of kids want a knife all of a sudden, what the heck is going on??

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Jealousy.

You know what's hot? Trust.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Depression.

There's nothing romantic about not showering for three days and forgetting what it's like to be able to feel things.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Depression is not just "not showering for three days...", you can look amazing, happy, work and still be depressed. This is too simplified description. I take good care of myself, shower every day, work, read, have hobbies, yet I was diagnosed with depression. Either there are many sides of this disease or those three doctors were wrong.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread The mentality of girls “playing hard to get”. No, she’s not into you because you’re being a creep dude, not because she wants you to try harder.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly! Same with people thinking they need to play games in order to "make you want them"

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Eating disorders. It's not beautiful and tragic, it's just a lot of gross s**t. Like hoarding bags of chewed up food under your bed. Taking laxatives until you piss water out of your ass and you're so dehydrated you have to go to the hospital. Having dentures/implants at 30 because your teeth rotted out. Walking around in public not realizing you have vomit in your hair, which by the way, is falling out by the fistful. I remember reading one horrifying story from an ER nurse who had a patient who was literally vomiting faeces because her stool was so impacted due to constipation from her anorexia. Imagine vomiting your own s**t.

And that's not including risks like heart failure, life-threatening arrhythmias, brain atrophy, gastric rupture...

There's nothing pretty about eating disorders.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who the hell thinks eating disorders are beautiful??

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Toxic relationships and the bad boy ideology - "bad boys" may seem all cute on paper but no, you cannot fix them. It is up to the person to change and toxic relationships are a battle to make healthy. Only if the two parties are willing to sort it out then it can work out but there's nothing romantic about toxicity, it hurts and screws with your head

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Completely agree, but for that to stop, women have to stop chasing these stories. It was mostly women who read the books and watched the movie of 50 shades.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Not "needing" 7-8 hours of sleep.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

goddamnit i only slept 4hours last night because of work and household and all that. i f*cking hate it! i'm so tired and i just want to lie back in my bed. i need my 8hrs and if you think that you don't, be happy but i think you gonna pay later for that

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Having children.

Being a parent is [friggin] hard work, and kids are basically a**holes for years and years. If you're not sure you're up for the challenge, postpone it while you consider it some more.

Some people are savants when it comes to child rearing, but for most people, it's a skill you have to build, and constantly work on as your kid grows and find new ways to almost kill themselves. And even if you do everything right, life can still throw you curveballs.

Thankfully, I see more and more honesty about the darker sides of pregnancy, childbirth, parenting and economy, and I genuinely believe we are heading towards a generation of enthusiastic parents, who chose the life, rather than just letting it happen to them.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Poverty.

Growing up poor and oppressed in a third world country and climbing your way out of this hell, it is not inspirational nor heartwarming. There is nothing beautiful about having to work until you break just so you can provide. No person deserves to live this kind of life. Help, don't romanticize the poor.

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Working while sick.

JUST STOP! It's not tough of you. You're not taking one for the team. You're probably about to take the whole team out.

I get it. Some workplaces have punitive policies for taking sick days (scary sidenote: like every single hospital I've ever worked). Some of us can't afford not to work that shift. But those are policy questions we should be pushing back on as soon as this administration is in the history books and we can finally get back to boring policy making again.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For context, this was posted about 326 days ago, so the administration they are referring to is the 45th one...

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Stalking o.o Nothing's sexy about a guy following you around or appearing randomly everywhere you go.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i hate movies in which she refuses to date him and he starts stalking her, sending her flowers and all that and suddenly she likes him. NO just NO

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The past.

No, it wasn't better. No, back in your day kids weren't better behaved. No, back in your day things weren't easier.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, but you're forgetting: in the past *they* were the kids so of _course_ they were better behaved. And things *were* easier, because *they* were younger, with fewer responsibilities and the harsh realities hadn't hit them yet. Everything they think is true. For a given value of "true".

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Losing your virginity...

You don't suddenly change into a whole new person once you've had sex. Teenagers should definitely not have this as a benchmark for being grown up.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im a virgin and happy about it. Im Asexual too and i never really got the ¨Appeal¨ of it

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Unnecessarily aggressive and certain spontaneous behavior, if someone throws a cup of coffee in someone else’s face simply because they don’t like the person, they aren’t cool or badass, they’re an a**hole

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ditto this for being intentionally loud and unpleasant then calling it ‘being strong’ and ‘dominant’ - it immediately says you’re too ignorant to reason or collaborate with and should be avoided

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Pregnancy. It's scary, life threatening, hard, exhausting, and so many more things. I was so sick. I was sick even after delivering at 32 weeks because if I didn't she and I would have died from HELLP syndrome. Feeling her kick and wiggle was the only thing I liked about being pregnant. She's the greatest thing to ever happen to me but it was so hard and the NICU was terrifying in itself. So many people romanticize pregnancy when there isn't nothing pretty about it. The Maternal Mortality rate in this country is absolutely shameful but that seems to get over looked with most things when it comes to pregnancy.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dunno dude, this one is subjective. Pregnancy could uncomfortable but I felt amazing most of it. That’s not to say there aren’t those who’ll experience complications. The aftermath pressure to have to entertain people while they came to see the baby, the shame I felt when my daughter refused the breast and was on formula, and the overwhelming empathy that made me so sensitive I wondered if I’d ever function in the world again was other worldly.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Gambling; because gambling isn't about James Bond playing Baccarat in Monte Carlo. It's about sad, addicted people desperately playing slot machines and losing money they don't have.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Around here, most gamblers are seniors with a cig in one hand, and an oxygen pack in the other. Not exactly glam.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Ignorance. You've got the right to not care about the world around you, but it's not something to brag about.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sorry but with all the s**t who went wrong since last year ignorance is what kept me sane. not watching the news keep me alive

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Portraying a glamorous life on social media. I am so sick and tired of every single person trying to make themselves look like a foodie, fitness model and wanderlust world explorer. Just live your life people. Stop doing things for the 'gram. It doesn't care about you or how much of your life you are wasting trying to impress people. Spend more time with your spouse, friends and family and you won't regret it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The really perverted and asinine thing about this is most of the projected image is a lie. Camera angles, Photoshop, airbrushing, lies. And all these vapid, arrogant, narcissistic fools are doing is making more people depressed by pushing it as an ideal that so few can reach.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread being proud of "being bad at maths". also hating learning/education.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm no more proud of being bad at math than I am of my shoe size. It's just part of who I am.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Chronic illness or life altering disease. People glamorize being sick in books and movies as a lesson in strength, positive outlook, and acceptance. Great values to learn but it completely ignores the constant pain, isolation, and fear that sick people face daily. People pass around feel good stories about “inspiring” people living their lives to the fullest while terminally or forever ill to make healthy and able bodied people feel grateful for what they have. I, nor anyone else in this community that I know, don’t want to be your positive inspiration porn. This life is hard and we wouldn’t choose it so stop using it for stories/media that you get to be emotional over then walk away from.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. I hate people talk about ill people as "brave", "fighters" and "they overcame their limitations and now are a CEO". Chronic illneses ruin your life, make you lose all selfrespect, often lead to poverty and isolation, most people leave you. The person I was before being ill is dead, her hopes and dreams, her skills, body wnd mind, friends...

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread For me, personally, it’s codependency. I always had romanticized the idea that me and my partner would fully depend on each other for every emotional and physical need, and that we would and should be able to fulfill the other persons needs. Now that I’m married I realized that if my husband and I did that with each other we would have a gross and dangerous codependent marriage.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Codependency is the destroyer of self-fulfillment and self-love. It's way healthier to be a cheerleader for your partner (for lack of better wording), in my opinion.

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Romance? I like to joke that my wife and I had the least-romantic vows ever. We talked about how grateful we were that circumstance brought us together and kept us together. I also told everyone present that I think one of the sexiest things about her is she provides half the income. Dry, boring, practical stuff. I romantically love my wife in very cheesy ways, but we are blunt about it: at least 50% of our success is based on logistics. We're from the same town, so we never have to fight about who gets to "go home" with vacation time (we see both families on Christmas day). Not only that, our families both get along, making our union blessed and seamless. Don't get me wrong, I would have married this woman in a Romeo and Juliet situation, but it makes it a f**k ton easier when everyone you care about is happy about the marriage, too. We also both wanted to go to the same college, so we were only apart for a short time (I went to college before her). We also both had career goals that fit together nicely as far as schedules and travel go.

I can tell you where all of my wife's freckles are, including ones she doesn't even know about. I can tell when she's been somewhere because of her smell. We often don't even have to talk to know how the other feels; an eye glance suffices. I get romance. But our relationship works at a nuts and bolts level for a whole bunch of non-romantic, logistical reasons, too. And I always beg my single friends to think about that practical stuff at least as much as the romantic stuff when they are on the dating scene.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Sad girls. If I read one more "the sadness in her eyes made me fall in love" bs imma start throwing hands, like imagine saying "her father died and now I wanna make out with her" just stfu

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Hospitals. It’s not like in the movies where everyone comes to visit and bring you gifts. Especially for chronically ill people for who hospital stays are frequent, it can be absolutely traumatic.

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The Mafia - growing up in Jersey, I've had friends who would talk reverently about relatives who are "connected", or would watch Goodfellas or The Sopranos and talk about how awesome it would be to be in a crew like that, and all I could think was, "they're criminals who end up murdered or in jail."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once a guy was hitting on me using "mafia connection" line. Like why would that impress me, dude? you are dealing with dangerous people so that is a good reason to stay away from you as much as possible.

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Competitiveness over everything. "I got 5 hours of sleep last night." "Yeah well I only got 2 hours and I slept on a rock."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Check out the Four Yorkshiremen sketch for taking this concept ad absurdium.

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Romeo & Juliet

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The drinking and drugs lifestyle. Specifically in music. 17 years later I look back and what a s**t show my life has been and it's hard coming back to life

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So true. I'm only 11 months clean but its still a daily struggle. It's not fun and no one truly wants to be an addict

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread High school

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Old people. They are not all lovely, wonderfully nice people. Some old people are just jerks! I work for a doctors office that works primarily with the geriatric community, and we had to call the cops on a patient today for being verbally and physically abusive to our doctor and office staff, myself included.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I've worked in a home for the elderly and old people are just people - who grew old. Whatever you where when you were younger you will still be when your old (the exception being people with mental injuries or disorders). There's sweethearts, assholes, introverts, extroverts, and everything in-between as with all of society.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread The Joker and Harley Quinn.

Seriously, even the comics acknowledged how f**ked up they are together, they're not a cute, dream relationship.

Edit: at the time of posting this I thought someone already used this as an example.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Loyalty to the company--it's not a good thing. My husband worked for one particular company for nearly 20 years and towards the end, they were really treating him like s**t. He was actually scared to try and find another job because he was afraid his coworkers would hate him afterwards for leaving. It didn't help that for a period of about 2 years prior to his quitting, he'd done a ton of interviews for similar positions only to find out they were going another way, or had just entered a hiring freeze or some other BS response. My own thoughts on that were that he was TOO experienced and wanted too much money BECAUSE of that experience. With one rejection after another, it broke him down and he felt like he would never be able to find another job.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Company loyalty can be great, but only if that company is loyal to you too. You're not loyal staying with a company that treats you badly, you're being taken for a mug.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread Being lonely.

When I was young I thought that the lonewolf grizzled tough guy was everything it meant to be truly masculine and cool. So much so that I emulated that idea into adulthood. Thinking people would see me as cool and manly.

Thing is I have no idea if anyone sees me that way because I have noone to hangout with.

I isolated myself to this point that the most interaction I have with people face to face is well. At a drive through getting coffee or a meal.

Let me tell you it doesn't matter how many crunches or push-ups you can do how good-looking you are or if you're charming as hell. Not unless you actually know people and make friends and you can't do that if you're completely isolated.

F**k being lonely. I really wish I could go out and just make friends like when I was young.

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The problem is in lying to yourself. If you did want to be with people but pretended you didn't, then whom were you fooling? Attracting people by pushing them away is a strange idea.

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30 Things That No One Should Romanticize, According To This Online Thread serial killers

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Judging by the amount of movies and series about serial killers people are fascinated by them. That does not mean anyone romanticizes them (except the occasional psychopath maybe).

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"Struggle love" or whatever you wanna call toxic relationships that slowly suck the life out of you and ruin your mental health. Relationships are not the misery olympics where you get a gold medal in the end if you put up with the most BS. Your partner should make you happy at least 95% of the time, if it's the opposite then you need to get the hell out of there instead of endlessly trying to 'make it work'. There's nothing romantic or glamorous about wasting the only life you have with a loser who lies, cheats, uses, and abuses you.

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The tortured artist. I hate the idea of "only those that suffer can make great art". Yes, there are people who have a rough life and make amazing things but that is a small percentage of people who actually get noticed. You can be smart, passionate, sincere, dedicated, or creative and make amazing art. If we promote the idea that true art only comes from people who have suffered then that promotes the idea of self inflicting suffering while detracting from those who have made really amazing art but haven't "truly suffered" for it.

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Worse is the idea that artists have to use alcohol or drugs to unlock their potential or build their legend, or that no true artist should be afraid of trying dangerous e periences. That's how we populate the "27 Club".

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In the U.S., the military.

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What is it in the USA that if someone is military they are automatically heroes. And the "sacrifice" thing ??? HUH. Don't they get a salary? What bothers me is no help for the veterans!

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Being stressed and exhausted from work.

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not every job is a casual stroll down lollipop lane. my job is stressful and i'm exhausted at least once a week but it's rewarding.

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Moving to a country without speaking the language. People won't think you're quirky and you won't be able to smile your way through a completely failed conversation. Especially in Paris. Emily in Paris was so unrealistic. Parisians are impatient enough with tourists who don't speak French, I can't imagine going to LIVE there and not speaking a word of it.

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Definitely. People also forget how long it takes to learn to speak fluently a language and until you do most people will judge you, be hostile or condescending.

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Nature...

People mindlessly think that because something is "natural" it is suddenly super healthy.

NOT EVERYTHING FROM NATURE IS HEALTHY FOR YOU.

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Yeah. I always say that things like arsenic, ebola or infanticide are natural. It doesnt make them less horrible

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Poor countries, I saw a video where someone was romanticizing Russia because it had a 'dystopian aesthetic'.

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Just telling you that the USA gets more dystopian too every passing day

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Childhood. Being a kid has its fun moments, but people are so fixated on "no responsibilities" that they forget it means "no power". Also, kids don't have a lot of credibility, even if they're fairly honest. Everyone has at least one Cassandra story from their childhood, some more heartbreaking than others.

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"Thug culture"

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I might be late, but revolution.

Revolution isn't just some people sacrificing themselves in some glorious coup de tat or assasination of a dictator. Revolution is often a bloody battle that lasts for years, where normal citizens are most affected.

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My husband has lived in a few countries going through a revolution and now he has CPTSD.

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Cheating.

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It makes me so mad in media where if the two main characters cheat on their partners with each other its sold as "romantic" "because they loce each other" and not a horrible selfish thing to do.

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Abuse in general. That ain't fun, I don't know why people think it's romantic.

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The whole taking to the open road and leaving everything behind thing. You're just going to be cold hungry and lonely

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You never truly leave behind all of your troubles - some of them become stowaways.

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The underdog mentality. Yeah everyone loves an underdog but god damn people are too busy trying to one up each other on "I'm stronger cuz my past was worse"

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Rise and grind everyday lifestyle...needlessly. Ofc some people actually have to live that life to legitimately survive, but the consistent push in today’s generations and romanticizing it to be this life where you’re happy and rich is just so dangerous...

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#59

Sports Injuries.

Like, 99% of the time it will get better but 99% of the time you won't be able to come back to where you once was as an athlete. No matter how heroically you will try to recover or fight this injury. Most of the time it will never be the same again.

I injured my knee a long time ago, and it has never been the same ever again and everybody told me to try harder. That's just not how it works.

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Hollywood warps some peoples views on what relationships are.

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Potential.

The whole idea can be really, really toxic. So many people get told how amazing they are when they're kids/teenagers/young adults, then coast on that potential for years afterwards and don't actually do anything; instead, they just get that nagging feeling that they could have been so much more and that they've somehow 'failed'. Your potential has zero value, whether you use it or not. You only get to brag about things you've actually done.

It's like doing the dishes: you don't get points for having the potential to clean out the sink. The plates are still dirty, and you've still got nothing to eat off.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

F@ck yes. I've always hated the "he has potential" crap. Like I'm obliged to use my brain for the benefit of others, and only have value if I do.

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Youth, apparently.

I used to think that pop culture romanticized youth mostly because they just didn't understand what being an adult meant. If you check any ask Reddit post about what being an adult is like, the general consensus is that people didn't actually change when they grew up, they still like cartoons, they still like video games, they're still immature. But there's no reason to talk about it anymore, because you're an adult and nobody is telling you what to do, so there's nobody telling you NOT to do those things for you to rebel against.

So I figured that's what people didn't understand. They thought being an adult meant getting boring and going antiquing and s**t, and they wanted to stay young so that wouldn't happen.

But according to songs I hear on the radio, that's not even what people romanticize about youth. There's one song I keep hearing that goes

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Paris.

No pressing reason, I'm just so f**king sick of it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Paris is a very interesting place, no need to pretend it's a theme park.

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bad news

that's all they ever run on cable news

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Struggling artists.

Okay, sure, for a while it might be fun, but real success is rare. For every artist, actress, recording artist that makes it to the pro level, there are hundreds or thousands who still work at Starbucks or retail at 35 hoping that in a few more years it will all pay off. 8 mile is nice, glad for that one guy it worked, but most would be much better off having a skilled position and money because they aren't making it.

The same is true of sports. For every pro athlete, there are 100 others who have nothing to show for the effort.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's nothing romantic about constantly begging you parents for money.

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