American brain washing... "thank you for your service"... I mean, yes, thank you! But war needs to be feared not celebrated!

profound truth

Also, I am closer to being a long-term BP commentator than a long-term professional writer 🤷‍♀️

And neither do good people.

All non-human babies are, for some reason.

I have a professional qualification where you have to have said "sorry, I can't answer that question" to qualify. My boss primed the customer to ask something silly.

Mistakes are unavoidable. Failure is unavoidable. We cannot run from it and need to stop being so afraid, because it's ok to not get everything right all the time, and like this says, sometimes it's out if your control

I don’t have kids and don’t want them and it’s simply because I don’t want to spend all of my adult life looking after and raising a child, I just want to live my own and not worry about that.

Unfortunately, social media has made a lot of people forget this rule.

You don't like everyone, so don't expect everyone to like you.

When you look at the impact of 7 billion humans at a time on the surface of the planet, yeah. This is probably true.

Nepotism is the guarantee of a job.

After the 1918 influenza epidemic came the roaring 20's which was revolutionary for both the arts and society, a similar thing happened with the renaissance, so who knows, maybe it will never be the same again for the better ( for those who have lost jobs/loved ones to Covid i am not minimising ur suffering)

This should be way higher. It's important to be at peace with yourself otherwise you will never be happy.

and you will often learn it the hard way: when you would need them the most - they will disappear.

No. You're part of the main cast for some.

Fine, so long as their costume for me isn’t a red shirt

The older I get, the more I’m finding out that some people I’ve totally forgotten about remember me right away if we run into each other. Some have told me that some small piece of advice I forgot I gave them helped them out a lot. It was totally by accident I ran into each of these people and found all this out. But it proves that each of us have more of an effect on people we spent even a short amount of time with than we can ever realize. Maybe if we concentrate on making positive impressions whenever possible, we could maybe turn all the s**t that’s going on completely around. Worth a try, at least.

I could argue against that. There are plenty of people around me that are main characters in my life. Some of them don’t even know I exist, but they’re important to me.

You'd have to have rpetty crummy relatives and friends for this to be true. These dear others in my life are part of an ensemble cast with me one among them

Ouch!

For most of your relationships, this is true. Otherwise, you're just a selfish a-hole with the EQ of a 3 yo.

Feel secure within yourself.

Related to this, I always remember that saying "everyone is the hero of their own story." When you hear someone telling their side of a story, they are going to cut out anything they view as negative because it doesn't help them. "This guy just ran up on me screaming for no reason". And then you ask about context and find out that they did something that instigated it.

The world is a stage and we all get a part.

Extra..? Puh-lease, I'm at least the villain, if not an outright Nemesis.

A lot of people that I meet are more like npc's from a video game.

Yeeeeah, no.

Most of the time, I feel like I’m only a stage prop or an NPC.

Im still busy with side quests and avoid the main quest so far

You make your own reality.....other people are created by yourself to inhabit this reality...they are not real...

I'm more than an extra to my husband, best friend and Mother.

cross episodes

Oooo I like this one

Niceness, kindness, small random acts, these are one of the things I love about life. Even if they are few and far between. And doing them always feels good so it's a win win ^-^

I live in Phoenix, where 200 people move to every single day. Also, where it will be uninhabitable within 20 years because of the rise in temperatures. Don't move here.

Very true

I read this as "corporation," doubted it, then realized that was probably true too.

Just like covid.. would never have imagined lockdowns precovid

And please do not go to people in a bad situation and tell them that x “happened for a reason”. It doesn’t matter what you believe. Telling them that their mum just died, they lost they lost their job or they are severely ill “for a reason” is extremely invalidating and rude.

And that's a good thing.

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Never chase a person

I wish we‘d teach that more. So many peope think they’re special and thus believe they’re entitled to something. You and your wishes/opinions/needs definitely matter, but so do those of everyone else.

You are saying that we should bet on us dying tomorrow?

I wish more people understood the concept of "risk". You can totally be 20lb over weight and still be healthy RIGHT NOW. All it means is that you are gambling that you will be healthy tomorrow or next week or next year. It is also not a guarantee. If there is a risk factor that one in ten overweight men will have a heart attack, and you gather nine of your overweight friends you cannot say with complete accuracy which one of you it will be. It is a gamble - some people are happy to gamble, and accept the fact they may lose. But there's a difference between knowing it's a possibility and being scared into thinking it's a certainty.

Even your own family

This is a terrible movie trope. Keep pestering and chasing and eventually the other person will fall madly in love with you. Sorry, but it doesn't work like that. You will go to prison for stalking and may find yourself on the receiving end of somebody else's love. You don't want that. You really don't want that.

that you are getting older doesn't automatically mean that you won't be beautyful anymore. The beauty just changes.

Unless it’s murder.

Ur partner will always find other people attractive ( weather they're bf/gf doesn't matter )

A hard lesson to have to go through. Loneliness is tough but loneliness in old age is not only tough but detrimental for your health too.

Who hurt you, OP, that made you believe this was 100% true for 100% of people 100% of the time? People are complicated. Relationships are complicated. Absolutes about either rarely apply.

There will also be people who dislike you because your actions harmed them. You can apologize, but they are not obligated to forgive you.