People love to give advice, even if we never asked for it, but it doesn’t always help prepare us for what’s ahead. There are some things in life we have to experience for ourselves to really get them and a new Reddit post has people calling them out. It asks, “What’s something everyone is warned about, but you don’t truly understand until it happens to you?”
Hundreds of responses have come in so far and these are some of the most relatable:
- “Burnout. Everyone warns you about it but until you hit that point where even things you care about feel heavy and motivation just disappears, you don’t really get it.”
- “Getting old.”
- “Putting on your seatbelt, even if you're in the backseat. Just do it. It can save your life.”
- “How fast time actually starts to move as you get older.”
- “Getting cheated on. It's probably the most painful non-physical injury I've ever sustained.”
- “Being the villain in someone else’s story, hurts way more than u expect, even when u know u’re not wrong”
- “Getting laid off. Losing my job wasn't a real thing to me until it happened at like age 37”
- “I don’t know if people are warned about it, per se…but if you’ve never had a severe, acute panic attack, you can’t truly understand what it’s like.”
- “Having children.”
- “Staying physically active and eating healthy. In my mid 40s the health and mobility difference between people that take care of themselves and others is staggering.”
- “HR is not your friend and does not care about you”
- “That marriage takes a lot of work to stay in love.”
- “Having a dictator take over. Happens easier and quicker than we think.”
- “Receiving a life changing diagnosis which was preventable. Take care of yourself people, nobody wants to be on the other end of ‘the talk’ from a doctor.”
- “Credit maxxes”
- “How spicy the Thai food is.”
- “Being a team lead is just babysitting adults”
Source: Reddit⠀