"Sand Makes For Poor Lube": 21 Things That People Totally Romanticize, But Are Actually Horrible IRL

I'll admit that I'm a veryyy romanticist person, perchance to an annoying degree. Anything I get, I tin rotation it into thing magical. Bad weather? That's a cozy excuse to curl up with a publication and a cat. A delayed flight? Sounds similar an impromptu edifice day connected the airline's dime (yes, we're ordering country service). The subway is down? That conscionable means a agelong walk, a caller neighbourhood, and an excuse to get coffee.

My clouds don't person metallic linings — they are full-on silver. So I whitethorn not really beryllium the champion writer for this station — but present we are. Over connected Reddit, radical are sharing things that are usually romanticized but aren't truthful cute successful existent life. Let's spot if you hold with what they're saying. Take a look:

1. "Sex connected beaches and successful blistery tubs. Sand and chemicals marque for mediocre lube."

—IamMayinSL

2. "Huge nationalist matrimony proposals that unit idiosyncratic into saying yes oregon beryllium embarrassed."

—MangoSalsa89

3. "Travelling for work. I've been to truthful galore astonishing destinations, wherever I fundamentally conscionable saw the wrong of a edifice country and the bureau I'm visiting. None of the worldly makes you consciousness similar a tourist. You are knackered from the flight, you person small clip to yourself, and adjacent if you do, it's a precise isolated existence, arsenic you ne'er consciousness similar you are truly existing anyplace successful particular."

—smellsliketeenferret

4. "Being joined to a celebrity. Could you ideate being successful that overmuch of the limelight each the time, being criticized implicit everything successful the media?"

—Substantial-Chip-102

5. "You spot truthful galore radical connected societal media who marque intelligence disorders retired to beryllium 'quirky' oregon adjacent astir 'cute.' Even films person those somewhat chaotic 'manic pixie imagination girls.' But successful reality? They're superior and debilitating conditions that ruin people's lives oregon clasp them backmost immensely."

—hellokittyshairbow

6. "Serial killers. It is not good to beryllium successful emotion with a cannibal who killed 17 young boys."

—Weird_Kitchen557

7. "Constantly pestering a idiosyncratic you're romantically funny successful until you deterioration them down and they springiness in."

—ResponsibleCost4989

"A antheral being obsessed with you. A batch of romanticist TV shows and movies marque it look adorable and harmless, but astir of the clip it's really abusive and scary." 

—cyranothe2nd

"Jealousy and possessiveness. I person had pistillate friends upset erstwhile their important different didn't look to person these traits. I'm guessing they are speechmaking acold excessively galore mafia romances?"

—lilbit6675

8. "Overworking and hustle culture."

—Electronic_Top8965

"I cognize idiosyncratic who puts 'no days off' successful their societal media bio, and it's truthful annoying due to the fact that I cognize it’s a lie. It’s ever well-off radical who romanticize overworking."

—late2reddit19

9. "Big weddings conscionable to person wedding debt. Why load yourself with that? I ne'er understood that."

—Mightyfoofoo8797

"I cognize a mates who astir got divorced due to the fact that of their wedding debt. Two years aft the wedding, they were inactive paying for it." 

—Stock_Delivery_6557

10. "Breakups and makeups."

—Scared-Object92

"I deliberation radical often confuse play and toxicity with passion." 

—mygrl268

"Someone’s quality to marque you soul-crushingly miserable does not mean they are a psyche mate with immoderate heavy penetration into your psyche. They are conscionable idiosyncratic who is truly bully astatine making you unhappy."

—Ready_Corgi462

11. "Shower sex. I'm ever acrophobic I'm going to gaffe and ace my skull. It's hard to get successful the temper erstwhile that's going done your head."

—RonDFong

12. "When affluent radical bash drugs. It seems trashy erstwhile mediocre radical are hooked connected them, sadly. But stone stars, musicians, and writers? They each look to beryllium glorified for their substance use!"

—SirRobynHode

13. "Boys being mean to small girls due to the fact that 'they similar them.' It's an highly toxic mode for small girls to judge that idiosyncratic shows feelings by being mean."

—reyes1423

14. "Marrying affluent and being wholly babelike connected idiosyncratic other financially. Unless you luck retired and find idiosyncratic awesome, being that babelike connected idiosyncratic other is usually not a large situation."

—Upbeat-Profit-2544

15. "Owning and operating a furniture and breakfast."

—Opening_Wall_9379

"People deliberation it’s each cozy mornings and cute guests, but it’s conscionable changeless cleaning, complaints, and nary days off. It's decidedly not worthy the hype." 

—PoutyBabehh 

"It's a full-time occupation wherever you're connected telephone 24/7 for guests, and they unrecorded successful your home. I've been retired of the furniture and meal manufacture for astir 10 years now, and I still can't slumber correctly."

—clamroll

16. "Being a farmer. Farming is difficult. It's back-breaking. It's risky. I judge small, autarkic farms and section nutrient accumulation are extraordinarily important. We bash request to assistance prolong the back-to-farm movement. But we shouldn't romanticize it."

—jdimpson

17. "Pirates. How did bands of thieving murderers and fearfulness of the oversea crook romanticist and fun? I inactive don’t understand."

—Radiant-Pomelo-3229

"Scurvy was not cute." 

—Decop0p

18. "Living immoderate clip successful the past that didn't person moving h2o oregon toilet paper."

—TheExtraMayo

19. "Real diamonds, alternatively than lab-grown ones. They person radical that spending much wealth for an unethically sourced stone is impervious of romanticist commitment. What a despicable selling con."

—Silly_Accident3137

20. "Staying successful furniture each day. A lazy time is bully erstwhile successful a while, but erstwhile it becomes your full life, it starts to consciousness similar you’re conscionable shrivelling up and rotting away. I cognize due to the fact that I'm bedridden close present with a breached leg."

—realbees

21. And finally: "Working for a non-profit. You're mostly doing the enactment of 3 people, for a 3rd of the wage that you'd person astatine a akin occupation for profit. The cognition that you're doing immoderate bully successful the satellite isn't arsenic satisfying erstwhile you tin ne'er abrogation oregon retire."

—ZeniAugusta

Now it's your turn. What's thing radical effort to person you is romantic, but is really horrible successful existent life? Tell maine successful the comments oregon capable retired the super-easy anonymous signifier below.

Okay, I admit, I do deliberation cruises are romanticized. To me, they dependable similar days of seasickness, worrying astir the weather, being stuck successful tiny rooms, and radical reenacting Titanic’s "I'm king of the world!" You couldn't wage maine to spell connected a cruise. So how's that for 'no metallic lining'?

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