6 Grotesque Truths About Life I’ve Finally Come to Accept

Bitter yet incredibly liberating pills worth swallowing

Neeramitra Reddy
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7 min readOct 8, 2021

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It’s when you discard the utopian delusion and embrace the harsh reality of life that you truly become an adult.

And this involves swallowing certain bitter truth pills.

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

But the heartening part is the more bitter a fact, the more powerful it is — as the harshest of truths destroys the strongest of illusions.

I want to share 6 such truths with you — painful to swallow but can help you lead a radically better life.

At the End of The Day, Everyone’s Selfish

Except for probably your mother, almost nobody would willingly risk their own wellbeing for your sake.

But they’re not to blame. Thanks to the evolutionary sense of self-preservation, humans are inherently selfish — at least subconsciously, your own life means the most to you.

Your friends and family might wish for your wellbeing and look out for you to…

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Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous

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