45 Things People Wish Society Would Stop Romanticizing And Instead Embrace Reality

Cătălin Roșioru

For better or for worse, real life is very far removed from the narratives that entertain us in movies, books, and video games. Fiction is often logical, internally consistent, and dramatic. Reality is rather messy, convoluted, and frustratingly confusing. At times, society promotes ideas that might seem great on the surface but are very toxic once you look at them closer. Case in point, the r/AskReddit community shared its thoughts about all the things that it wished people would stop