LPT: If you aren't good enough at anything to stand out, be reliable. Your faithfulness may be more useful to someone than being a flaky genius.

Hmm, grew up poor in a dying suburb of a rustbelt town, bullied regularly probably because I was trying so hard to fit in and everyone could sense my desperation, became homeless at 18 when my parents had the cops evict me because I was a "pothead" (have never been a drug user) and bawled my eyes out in the back of the cruiser not because I didn't have anywhere to go but because I didn't get to have a life like everyone else where my parents actually loved me and wanted anything to do with me. Started hanging with an old who would have me and some dudes I hung out with over and shower us in alcohol and attention until he tried to get us drunk to stick his dick in us (we got lucky when he didn't get lucky, but the story is still the butt of a lot of jokes. I don't find it funny). got stuck working minimum wage jobs because I couldn't get loans and couldn't put myself through college, eventually got a decent regular gig as a photographer but burned off my cornea with acid and got replaced while i recovered (still can't see to well out of that side, so i guess it wouldn't have mattered), got left by my longtime, verbally abusive ex for another guy she liked fucking more in a grand public spectacle in which she attempted to have the guy beat me up, and slipped into a three year depression when I realized I deserved it because this many bad things don't happen to good people.

But yes even in comparison to my very privileged life, the realization that the one thing that allowed me to forget about the rest of my problems was just as unfair and uncaring as the rest of the universe struck a bit of a soft spot and I've been acting like a little bitch about it this whole time. Thanks for snapping me out of that.

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