Sure, knowledge is power and all of that…but what if you learned something that consistently made your life harder? Or forced you to make a decision you’d rather have avoided?
These 12 people have some interesting takes on why something they learned made their life worse and not better.
#12. Eerie, for sure
“That the Challenger crew was alive and possibly aware all the way down. At least two activated oxygen.”
#11. Eyelash pets
“That there are mites living on your eyelashes and eating the dead skin off of them.”
#10. Child abuse training is awful
“I was in a lecture on child abuse and they showed a video from a nanny cam of an 18 month old getting punched repeatedly by babysitters boyfriend. Most of it was off camera but the camera was jostled and you could hear everything. It seemed to last forever. I will randomly think of the clip and the parents when they saw the video. It’s been over 15 years since that lecture but it still makes me queasy.”
#9. War is hell
“What an incoming mortar impact sounds like. You got one of those big freezers in the garage with a door that swings open upwards? Pick it up and slam it down, sounds exactly like that. I may or may not have looked like a fucking weirdo once or twice in my life when people slammed their freezer/fridge doors behind me without warning.”
#8. True story
“That a lot of the world is covered in poop.”
#7. Family matters
“When I was 20, I learned that my grandpa raped my aunt and my mother was forced to watch. I suddenly understood why she didn’t cry at his funeral.”
#6. Can never unread
“I was reading a book about infamous cannibals. Just something I found in a true crime section and I was curious to see what insights were had. One of the men murdered his wife’s little sister, and described it in excruciating detail on a tape, I think his wife accidentally found it. What he said was transcribed into the book.
I have never had to put a book down before to prevent myself from throwing up. Every now and then some of what he says he did pops back in my head. I finished the book and I’m never opening it again.
(Edit: I wasn’t thinking when I posted. The book is named Death by Cannibal by Peter Davidson. The guy in question John Weber.).”
#5. Zombies, basically
“Prions.”
#4. You’ll never leave the house again
“OSHA stuff at bars and nightclubs. Most are waiting to burn up with people inside.”
#3. The truth might not set you free
“I don’t mind knowing my friend was molested by her father- I just wish I didn’t know the details. What he said to her what he made her do.
And then after her mother found out she sent them to counseling… and that’s it… didn’t kick him out… didn’t call the cops… just let him keep being an authority figure.
And then finally after learning all that I saw them driving away from my neighborhood. It was just her mom driving. I wanted to pull her out of the car and beat her so bad she’d remember it for the rest of her life. I didn’t do that or anything for that matter [it had happened 8 years earlier… and she asked me not to say anything]. I had been edgy and a little self righteous before this….
This made me angry and I’ve been angry about this for almost 5 years now.”
#2. The true depth of pain
“The “ant-walking alligator people” that roamed around after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
“The Last Train From Hiroshima” is a clear-eyed catalog of every such horror, and not for the weak-stomached. Mr. Pellegrino follows his survivors as they trudge through wastelands that make “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy read like “Goodnight, Moon.” He describes the so-called “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now eyeless and faceless — with their heads transformed into blackened alligator hides displaying red holes, indicating mouths.”
The author continues: “The alligator people did not scream. Their mouths could not form the sounds. The noise they made was worse than screaming. They uttered a continuous murmur — like locusts on a midsummer night. One man, staggering on charred stumps of legs, was carrying a dead baby upside down.”
#1. Horrifying
“The 200 dead bodies used as landmarks on Mount Everest.”
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