Ten Hard Truths Everyone Needs To Know

As we experience life through growth and adulthood, we learn and discover new things almost in every event of our lives, particularly life-changing events, which happen often when one reaches the young adult phase.

We get to discover new realities and truths about life as a whole. At times, such discoveries are contrary to the beliefs we've held since childhood. They turn what we knew as real upside down, and then we ought to adjust to these newly discovered realities.

I have compiled ten hard truths that everyone needs to know.

Here are the ten hard truths you probably didn't know about life:

1. Whether friends, family, and everyone else, nobody owes you success, happiness, or respect. You have to earn every bit of it.

2. If you try to please everybody, you will drain the tank. Not everyone likes you, and that's life.

   
   

3. Bad things happen to good people, and hard work doesn't always pay off. Accept it, adapt, and keep moving forward.

   
   

4. Don't expect others to prioritize your needs. Most people are looking out for themselves; learn to do the same.

   
   

5. It's not your partner's or your parents' job to make you happy. That responsibility rests solely on your shoulders.

   
   

6. Your problems are yours to solve. Stop waiting for a mentor, partner or lucky break, you are your own savior.

   
   

7. People respect results, not effort. Focus less on telling your story and more on proving yourself.

   
   

8. You may care, but people just change on their own. Save your energy and set boundaries.

   
   

9. You can always make more money, but you'll never get that lost time back. Use it wisely.

10. There's no shortcut to greatness; sleepless nights, good times lost and failure are part of the process before you reap the reward.

These are some of the harsh truths about life that most of us discover in our adulthood, we often learn them the hard way. So if you have not learnt any of these the hard way, you have just learnt them the easy way.

Save yourself some heartache and disappointments by keeping them in mind in your quest for a better life and in your interactions with others.