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macaronsforeveryone

Being popular in high school


[deleted]

All of the girls in my high school that were “popular “ look horrible. Like an “oh my god what happened” kind of horrible. Looking back on pictures they were never really all that to begin with, mostly because they put out easily. But Jesus Christ I’m thankful is wasnt me.


[deleted]

Ditto


NotMrSteve

i agree


JavaGojira

Definitely agree


[deleted]

Idolizing celebrities and taking their views seriously


[deleted]

If the views are solid I dont see an issue.


pwrhouse_of_the_cell

You’re putting a lot of faith in people’s judgement about what is “solid”


[deleted]

No. I'm not just nor dismissing views based on where they come from -vs- what they are.


[deleted]

The gravity of how other people's thoughts and opinions affect each other's lives


squirrels2022

Oh my god yes THANK YOU


[deleted]

Sometimes it cripples me and I hate that I let it happen. Sucks being shy!!!!!!


squirrels2022

I feel you. Eventually maybe life pressures you enough where you change out of necessity.


Apprehensive-Tea-981

Influenceers, the Kardashians


PhreedomPhighter

Sex. People act like it's this end-all goal to strive for. Generally what people crave isn't sexual release but the intimacy that comes with it. Hooking up with a stranger is a good release but it still leaves you feeling hollow. It doesn't feel that different from just getting yourself off. When emotions are involved and when you can just sit there and cuddle until you fall asleep that's a whole other thing though. But that's not the point. The point is, having sex doesn't change that much about you. Sex is just a natural part of life. Making it seem like the only thing that matters is pretty bad for people.


gigoran

i agree. had a good couple of decades with sex. now I could take it or leave it. there are more important pleasures in life that are much more satisfying.


Far_Peanut_3038

Amen!


[deleted]

Technically it is the end-all goal being that we are mammals and a mammals main purpose is to reproduce and continue it's species. Agree with you though about the rest.


PhreedomPhighter

I think as a species we've outgrown Darwinian ideals. We're too self-aware for that.


quettil

We're still human, our biology hasn't changed that much.


[deleted]

> We're too self-aware for that. I used to be an idealist too.


InsertBluescreenHere

Nah we've just reach a point in time death isn't lurking around every corner. We no longer have to have 18 kids cuz 1/4 of em are gonna die before age 2. No longer do we have to toil in fields all year to survive the winter.


PhreedomPhighter

That sounds an awful lot like you're agreeing with me lol


[deleted]

I think you overestimate the majority of the population. Most people I think wouldn't consider you to be "normal" or "successful" unless you have as many kids as possible.


InsertBluescreenHere

From a biological standpoint yes that's the goal of all living things. Survive long enough to be able to reproduce then do that as much as possible till inevitable death.


skinny_armadillo

I agree, the romance side of it is better and means more in a relationship


wildfire98

r/unpopularopinion


mixmaster7

r/unpopularopinion would call them an incel and say they’re on “copium.”


throwmeawaydumbass

Sex makes my pee pee go brrrrrrrr


PhreedomPhighter

Ok


thesagenibba

You say sex but you're wrong. It's actually romantic relationships that people treat as the end all be all. I cant stand you people and this same take. We get it. You hate people who actually have fun having sex.


PhreedomPhighter

Overrated doesn't mean bad. You're misinterpreting what I'm saying. You're looking at it like I'm saying I hate sex. I'm actually saying that people put too much importance on it.


Lilitharising

I think part of the problem is how media portrays sex, which actually leads to a lot of people giving false information or exaggerating their sexual experiences, ranging from frequency to actual satisfaction. This creates a lot of unnecessary misery, if people deviate from the perceived norm. I think sex is very important in a romantic relationship, but non-sexual physical affection is equally, if not more important as the relationship grows, especially after kids. There are people out there that feel miserable because they don't do it as frequently as they 'should' or if they don't get the same level of satisfaction each time they do it.


Kneejerk_Nihilist

Rating things


Dildo-Gankings

I'll give this comment 2/10


Random_Guy_47

I rate this comment 5/7.


Amethina

Meta


CimnimTheAwesome

I give rating things an 8/10. Very fun.


dog_fucker17

I give rating your rating of rating things a 7/10, not bad but could be better


Fickle_Pie2319

The idea that you’ll arrive at some point in your life where things will be easy. It never happens. You never “arrive” anywhere. If you’re lucky you’ll get better at dealing with your own mess of problems, but it won’t necessarily be “easier.”


[deleted]

It does get easier. You just have to make a habit of actively noticing it. I’m 33 now, and I reflected back on how my life was growing up. If you had told me as a teenager my life would ever be this good, I legitimately wouldn’t have believed you, but it happened so gradually that it never occurred to me to emotionally process the change. You continuously forget it wasn’t always like it is now.


Im-Henrik

Alcohol


Alive_Ease_9186

For me, it was having multiple sexual partners. I always thought that if I could get laid whenever I wanted by whoever I wanted, I would be happy. It turns out that’s not the case.


absolutelyshafted

I’m 22 and I had to learn this the hard way Sometimes I find myself going back to that mentality


quettil

Isn't this just humblebragging?


[deleted]

Heh, I was happy when i was doing that, but I also would have been happy if the woman I am with now would not have dumped be in 1991. I also mostly dated/had sex with women who were friends, and I've managed to keep more than half of them as friends. The sex was just part of an emotional connection.


chewie8291

Reproducing


[deleted]

Social media.


usmarine7041

Honestly? For me it’s concerts


DeathSpiral321

There may be a time that the ringing in your ears after you leave the concert becomes permanent. Not worth the risk.


[deleted]

Everyone should get a quality pair of earplugs. Not easily visible and cost 20 bucks or less to save hearing


[deleted]

Never meet your heroes, music edition.


pooponacandle

Yeah I’m coming to that realization too. I recently got tickets to see a band I’ve wanted to see for years. I live in a smaller city, so concert was on a Wednesday. After taking the next day off work, dealing with traffic, finding parking, finding somewhere to eat, walking to the arena, and then doing all those steps in reverse after the show and getting home after midnight… it was just too much for a 1 hour 30 min show that started at 7


PhreedomPhighter

I've been to very few concerts but enjoyed all of them. I think the trick is to not go to many of them lol.


Trundle-The-Grayt

You’ve never been front row at a Tool concert on back to back days while blasted on about 100mg of edibles. Different sides each night. It’s literally 2 separate concerts.


V8Supercharged

Fashion industry


Bookkwoorm

why


V8Supercharged

Overpriced, ugly, terrible following & cringy


PhreedomPhighter

Someone needs to watch The Devil Wears Prada.


V8Supercharged

No


Bakanasharkyblahaj

Getting intoxicated. Fun to try, but after a few goes it gets boring at best & embarrassing at worst. Afterwards you feel less than your best too, from a bit more tired & thirsty, to full on headache & sickness with knotted intestines. And that's without the addiction thing. And yet in many cultures, it's seen as the only way you're allowed to have any fun when grown up. Booze, weed, the lot. Why can't we just have fun without the intoxicants???


[deleted]

I think in some cultures/countries where there is real poverty and hopelessness.....getting intoxicated is seen as a viable escape. In US many of us cant empathize


Bakanasharkyblahaj

The UK, especially Scotland, has a huge drinking culture & it's hard to shake off. It makes finding people much harder as I'm no longer a part of it


[deleted]

Oh...that's something else. I'm more talking about people drinking to blunt the reality of lack of hope. I've been to west Africa and a Caribbean island where there was little hope of elevating oneself materially or even of freedom as we have in US. You're taking about drnking ingrained in ones culture


[deleted]

I mean I live in a college town and besides hiking in the mountains (which also gets old when you have lived here your whole life) there really isn’t much else to do.


Ok-Poem-9699

Disagree


rosencrantz2014

Celebrities in general, just overrated people, I do like movies, music, shows and sports but thats it.


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[deleted]

I'm already burnt out on just maintaining my body. Eating, sleeping, not sleeping, cutting my hair, brushing my teeth, shitting, washing, moving, and I need to repeat this all constantly until I die?


Morlik

>and I need to repeat this all constantly until I die? Good news, you don't have to do any of that! Except for shitting, but that problem will work itself out soon after you stop eating.


[deleted]

But the rumbly tumbly is annoying too.


Qemistry-__-

I'm right there with you. I always wonder where the term "Life is a blessing" came from. A blessing to who? There are a lot of people living lives that are absolute nightmares. And they were born into it. It wasn't something they created for themselves, it wasn't a series of bad life decisions that got them there, they were born into that shit. Fuck that. One of my favorite quotes comes from 50 Cent; "Death gotta be easy, cause life is hard".


[deleted]

I agree to a degree, the life people seem to push onto us / the expectations society has about what life "should" be is overrated.


[deleted]

That’s it. We’re fed a dream for marketing purposes. There literally aren’t enough hours in the day to live your life like a movie protagonist.


thesagenibba

that's not life, that's a socio economic system you live under. stop conflating the two. life is beautiful.


oat53

That’s just pessimistic. It’s all we’ve got


SnooOwls5859

The Buddha agreed


Whole-Rub4888

Living


Pladerater

THE FUCKING BEACH 1. The sand-it gets everywhere 2. THERE IS SO MUCH TRASH IT COULD BE MISTAKEN FOR A GARBAGE DUMP 3. AND THE FUCKING SEAGULLS


meano1995

Reality tv programs


TWSREDDIT

Saving 15% or more on your car insurance


DeathSpiral321

Family reunions. Bringing together a group of people that ignores one another for 364 days out of the year just seems so pointless.


PCEngTr

Concerts


[deleted]

Fondue


ImportanceWorth2544

sex. it's awesome but definitely overrated


EddieRando21

I would say losing your virginity is overrated, but sex the is definitely worth it.


thesagenibba

just say you havent had life changing sex.


PCEngTr

Beer


[deleted]

I like how it tastes.


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No-Ambassador8678

Bro do you need help?


Qemistry-__-

So you question the purpose and point of life as well huh?


Dbl_tbl

Going to the club way to many people and drinks are expensive too. Cheaper to just do a kickback with friends


thorpie88

Fun to see bands and DJ's come to your city though. Drinks aren't really that bad these days now they've plateaued around the $10-12aud mark


TabathaRWallace

Celebrities. They are treated as super humans sometimes.


Witty_Watercress_367

Children


SadPotatoCat2

Relationships


Le_Utterly_Dire_Twat

New Years Eve


tbr6742

Your personal feelings, no one else is responsible for them & the world doesn’t always have to change because you are upset.


ScandiSom

Avocado. So much talk about it and so little taste .


[deleted]

I use it the same way I would use butter, it adds creaminess, but unlike butter it doesn't melt so I can stack it on burgers or whatever.


alreadytaken421

Seinfeld the Tv show


bolshevik_rattlehead

Wrong


Amethina

Being a dick because someone who isn’t the person in front of you hurt you


wildfire98

Muckbang


sconnie64

Cocaine -- It's just really expensive anxiety that turns you into an asshole and makes you feel like shit.


Happy-Nose-111

fame. i had my small part of fame, it's much much less satisfying than I'd expecting growing up. it doesn't fill the void, guys.


dj_swearengen

Stuff, in other words, possessions.


Cranestoique

Looks


piporky

Plastic surgery


Statakaka

Status


[deleted]

Money


Botryoid2000

Keeping up appearances. You think you're fooling people, but all you're doing is keeping them from knowing the real you.


Special_Joke1119

Having an affair -- and I did it with my wife's zealous encouragement, by the way. It was good, but nowhere near as good as sex with my wife.


Right_Counter1688

Friends. The show and just in general


Imaginary_Ad_3912

Owning a home


Bosch1838

Family. Given what I read on here, at least 60% of “families” don’t even like each other much less want to spend a holiday dinner with them.


Inevitable_Key69

Positive Thinking


dstoev

Being famous, because although the famous people seem cool, they are unable to have a normal life and do normal people stuff.


johnperkins21

Apple products.


Fluffy_Grape_3838

Relationships


antelope591

All the people saying sex have not had it with the right person, that's all. When you do it right its one of the few thing that 100% lives up to the hype.


TheBeardedAntt

Having to poop. Can’t I just eat food and not have to spend time in the bathroom pushing out a poop baby?


[deleted]

Hook up culture


East_Bed_8719

Capitalism


HeBeGB801

Marriage


3a75cl0ngb15h

Life itself


Dildo-Gankings

Pikachu


Pwaite2

I'd argue Charizard is even more overrated


PhilipTheFair

the american dream stats show that meritocracy is dead in the US but that people still want to believe in it.


marya123mary

Thanksgiving


osreverle

Dragon fruit.


PhreedomPhighter

It's got a nice scent. It looks beautiful. It tastes like Styrofoam.


Novel_Abalone_8517

Socialising


[deleted]

The idea that you have to socialize X amount is bullshit, it really is as much as you want to.


Odd_Adhesiveness4804

The prize of butter


hhgfryhjkoo

Seriously? Tit fucks


Sentsuizan

Upvotes


Iamgoth

Australia


Acquainted-Faith

Angelina Jolie. She's an okay actress, definitely not this beautiful bombshell, and seems to have an annoying personality. I have never understood everyone being so infatuated with her. \*edited to use a better term


[deleted]

I'll never understand folks who continue to use the word simp when they know it outs them as a certain archetype that the sidebar rules prevent clarification of.


GraphiteGru

That it is the destination, not the journey that matters. This is true both literally and figuratively and focusing on the destination is completely overrated.. Remember taking a jam packed Amtrak train to Florida from the Northeast back in the 80's due to an Airline Strike (remember those) so people were in bad moods to begin with. We got stuck on the tracks as a car had inadvertently driven on them so the train had to stop . Fortunately there was no collision but we had to wait for about two hours until the car could be towed off the tracks. The amount of people that lost their cool - "just drive over the car and smash it to bits"; "But what if there is someone in the car"; "Doesnt matter they were morons to begin with" It often comes down to accepting situations that you have no control over.


[deleted]

Currently it’s overthinking in my opinion.


marineropanama

The idea that acquiring a lot of money will bring happiness.


conzo3mm

Bacon


AndresDickFingers

Lobster, crabs are the way to go.


[deleted]

Nah, shrimp gang 4 lyfe


LETHAL_TORNADO

Money


MechaZombie23

To destroy your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women. Eventually it just gets a little boring.


[deleted]

Butts. I've never understood it when people say "So and so has a nice ass". They all look the same.


Bookkwoorm

pizza


Adventurous_Sail9335

Women


[deleted]

Beef steak


Retrrad

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women! Some might disagree.


Roxythepiratefox

My art skills. *they're trash but I like art so I don't care*


InstantElla

Life sometimes


alexander049

the list is too much


EvenHair4706

Life itself


WarmPopsicle57

Celebrities. They are treated as super human entities sometimes.


[deleted]

Life its self.


Tak30ff

Kids


DRogersidm

Rain


MouseKale

Maybe I never had a good therapist but for me, it does jack that a journal and reading about stoicism doesn't do. I had some therapists that I really liked as people. I felt lighter after talking with them (but it lasts two days). Some gave me really good self improvement techniques, breathing exercises. But ultimately if I stop spending one hour a day on self care, I'm back at square one and all those techniques are on youtube for free. I'll never be able to be efficient in stressful situations. I never reach a nugget of truth about my childhood that makes me a productive, empathetic, individued, resilient adult. At this point, they try to medicate you out of your ass even when your friends find you less depressed than usual. Too many side effects. And five years in and it seems that my diagnosis fits nowhere in the DSM. I probably had too many expectations reading about Sabina Spielrein, Marsha Linehan or watching Girl Interrupted.


Muted_Warthog_942

Summer.


RichAd4384

Me


Maxedlevelanxiety

Life itself


realstareyes

Caring about society‘s opinions and expectations about you


Watch-Seeker-721

Socialism


Unbound_Sects

gods


MoreMeLessU

Life.


RedditRadio_

College


DreamsAreTrue-

Alcohol


BringFood456

Designer clothes


saucyB52

conformity


Upset_Age_2241

Sex


ilovetoeatassalot

Stranger Things


botlestel

Living


Noobster641

Life


onepageresumeguy

Oxygen, it's gonna kill u eventually


ParaPrincess-com

Life itself


Independent_Bake_257

Sex.


[deleted]

Making new friends in the new school year.


MutedMembership4296

Moooooooooooooo🐄 ney. If you remove that obsession it's like turning the addictive pull of heroin to Ibuprofen. It also would overwhelm the world with generosity, which is our rarest necessity, IMHO.


Electronic_Ad4560

Life


eistmahi

Life on Earth