25 People Who Realized Disturbing Truths

1.

“The people that cause the most harm to the world will go unpunished, live happy and fulfilled lives, and die getting to do pretty much anything they ever wanted simply because they were either born into wealth or managed to acquire tons of if through nefarious means.”

2.

“Sometimes people you care deeply about will choose to drop out of your life and all you can really do is have the grace to let them.”

3.

“My grandpa just wanted to get to know me and the man I was becoming during his last year of life. Which I was too young and too selfish to realize.”

4.

“This is coming from a firefighter: If you have to perform CPR on them, it's most likely over for the patient. I'm not sure if I've made peace with it completely, but I've accepted it at least.”

5.

“My dad passed away 6 weeks ago and I will NEVER see, hear, chat or get to hug him ever again & that forever is a long time.”

6.

“You can be hanging with your best friends and not realize that it is actually the last time you'll ever be all together in the same room. Even just because of moving cities.”

7.

“That at the end of the day, the only one I can rely on is myself.”

8.

“Being alive is expensive.”

9.

“I went through 2 years of cancer treatments. I realized this after 6 cycles of chemotherapy. No one’s coming. Hardest part of my life has been realizing this.”

10.

“I'm aging nonstop”

11.

“I realized in therapy yesterday I'm only keeping myself alive out of a sense of obligation to others. That wasn't a fun realization.”

12.

“I'm aware enough to know that there is something wrong with me. But I'm not aware enough to know what it is, let alone fix it.”

13.

“My childhood is gone, and I have no good memory from that phase of my life.”

14.

“Just because you think someone is "the one", doesn't mean they think you are.”

15.

“There will be no cure for my spinal cord injury in my lifetime. It was initially very depressing to realise, but almost 3 years in I'm kind of okay with it. They should cure other stuff like ALS first, and if it has to be SCI related - cure the nerve pain, or the bowel/bladder stuff. The not walking is very low on my list of priorities personally. I'm aware of ongoing research, but have no faith in any of it. We'd have to either revolutionize neurology or be very lucky.”

16.

“My depression is very likely chronic. I'll be living with it for the rest of my life.”

17.

“You can do everything perfectly and still fail completely.”

18.

“People would rather leave you than own up to what they did and they’ll never even give you a second thought. Humans, turns out, are good at lying to themselves.”

19.

“I find it more comforting than depressing but some people will see it as the opposite. I'm entirely fine with being in no relationship. It's been almost a decade since the last one and I just don't see it as the priority that others do. I'm entirely fine with just having friends and colleagues. Hell I'm happy. I just wanna toss it out there because some people might find my reasoning to be helpful in deciding their life priorities.”

20.

“That my whole life has been a waste. That if I disappeared tomorrow nobody would even know or care. I used to consciously feel the existential dread that brings, but now I just kind of ignore it and keep going on with my mechanical existence.”

21.

“You're completely alone inside your own head. No one will ever be able to truly feel what you feel..”

22.

“You can fall out of love.”

23.

“We are all loved conditionally.”

24.

“I'll never be as attractive as I could have been if I'd eaten sensibly in college.”

25.

“Humanity will never cease conflict. As soon as we solve something we turn against something else.”