Lies That New Generations Were Made To Believe Were The Secret To Living Better Lives

“Do well in school and you’ll have a nice house, a good job, and a family before you’re twenty six”

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• September 7, 2022

Everything you’ve known in your life is a lie! Well, not exactly everything but there is a lot that adults have made you think to be true, either it was based on their own experience or they just simply want you to do something, they’ve raised you to believe lies.

Like getting a degree means a sure way of getting a good paying job or if you never use a plastic straw you would reduce climate change massively, despite continuous capitalist environment abuse. There’s always some motive behind the lies.

Most adults don’t realize that what they’ve been taught is far from the truth or is more complicated than how they describe it until they’re already experiencing it. Having to learn the hard way before seeing what the older generations can’t unlearn.

What results from believing these things too much can be burnout from life or guilt from something they couldn’t even control. It can lead them to paths that they might not exactly want to take just because it’s the ‘safe’ thing to do.

There’s no exact formula on how to go about in life but people who have answered the thread of what lies the past generation has instilled pointed out that the older people seem to think otherwise. Take a look at the comments and see what you will end up agreeing with.

1. Things you had to unlearn from past generations

2. The things they would try to get away with just because it's cheaper

3. That's why they tell you to memorize a whole table of numbers

4. There's nothing wrong with going to college but making it the sole reason for you to make or break in life, now that's wrong

5. "They will treat you like family"

6. Life has a funny way of showing how bad it can be sometimes despite doing well in school

7. It's about balance and knowing what's good for your body

8. Even if your penmanship is illegible

9. Maybe you can wait after doing good things

10. Sometimes luck plays a big role when it comes to achieving what you want, other than hard work

11. They say credit cards are traps but they're involved in a weird system that you'll need to get into if you want to have a good credit score

12. There's so many sides to this and not all of them are revealed

13. There are a lot of people who take elevators to the top to cheat those using ladders

14. The concept of success really varies in circumstances

15. When they say they're tired of their jobs versus what they really meant

16. Again with the advice of working your way to the top, if you think you deserve a higher pay then try to demand it

17. It gets dangerous when it's mixed with recklessness

18. Nothing trickles, it stays there with them and leaves squat for the rest

19. And if they grease enough hands then those would turn a blind eye to the crimes

20. Mistakes from past generations can easily catch up with present ones

21. Money can also make you comfortable enough that you don't have to worry while looking for happiness

22. The healthcare system had been compared with numerous other countries and it just gets worst

23. If that's your dream and you can do it, good for you but it's not all that for other people

24. Unfortunately, cheaters are getting braver and it's getting easy for them to screw over others

25. You'll just end up with an upset stomach sooner or later

26. When most of the once in a lifetime event are bad ones

27. At this point, anything can happen and you never know when a crash would happen again

28. *checks how many hours have passed since 5pm*

29. There's a sort of collective entitlement that creates clashes with current generations

30. A bad economy means hussle is for life

31. Pick two and survive with those because trying to have all of them is simply a struggle

You’ll inevitably go through life with a lot of people surrounding telling you their different opinions. And they might be useful but as an adult, you’ll get the choice to decide for yourself and see if their advice is worth it to try.

The old generations are very keen on proving that they know what’s best since they’ve already gone through life more than the newer generations. Them being right is not a solid thing as proven by these lies.

Chelsi