If there’s one thing I would like to change about the human race with the snap of my fingers, it would be to let people say the don’t understand something and to ask for clarification without judgement or embarrassment.
Ok, fine, there are other things I would change first, but this would would literally impact everyone alive, and listen – there’s no shame in not understanding something, and there should be even less shame for asking questions!
Here are 20 people who are ready to admit to some common things they just don’t get.
20. They don’t really teach you that in school.
Stocks, investments, inflation, interest rates, etc. Or anything to do with finance, really.
That stuff is so confusing to me.
19. This blows my mind, too.
How can we lose so much hair every day and still have hair stay a consistent length???
Especially people who have long hair?
18. There doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason.
Why the hiring process at most companies is so damn slow. Back in the 60’s, you could walk into a business asking about a job on Friday and start work the following Monday. Now, despite having access to tons of information about a candidate on the Internet, it takes 6 or more weeks in many cases.
And the teacher interview process is one of the most degrading experiences I’ve ever been through. Before I landed my current job I interviewed at a school. They said they were on a really short timeline to fill the position and they would let me know within a week. Cool. Week goes by and I get invited for a second interview with different people in the admin chain. Okay, that’s different from what I was told, but whatever, I get it. They tell me the same thing, we’re trying to fill it fast and you’ll know within a week. Two weeks go by, I’m slowly losing my mind to job-hunting depression and I’m in the car with my husband when my phone finally rings. I was so overjoyed that I pulled over just to answer it.
It was an invite to a third interview. Wtf. Fine, surely I must be close to the end by now. I do the third round with the same people from the first interview and get the same spiel. Shortly after this I interviewed in another school who, just after the first interview, invited me to demo a lesson a couple days later. I do that, and within that same week they call and offer me a job. A week after that, the first place emails me and invites me to demo a lesson.
So the first place took a month and a half, jerking me around for a position they were *apparently* “rushing to fill.” And within all that time another school interviewed, demoed, and hired me.
I told the first place politely and professionally to kiss my a$$.
17. Hmm, I wonder which one is probably true?
How I get taller and more handsome every time my grandma sees me.
Either cause I simply am one sexy beast, or my gram is progressively shrinking and losing vision.
I’m betting on the former being the case though.
16. Someone explain it to me.
Bitcoins and NFTs.
How does all that digital stuff even work?
So confusing!
15. It might be time to see a doctor.
How people get up in the morning feeling good and refreshed. I have woken up tired since before I can remember. I don’t understand if they just mentally power through the tired, or if they feel something I don’t/can’t.
No matter how much sleep I get, the first 30 minutes after waking up suck.
If you get enough sleep, eat right, exercise, and stay hydrated you can still feel energized all day despite how you feel when you wake up.
I’m just not a morning person and that’s ok.
14. I mean, I guess we just don’t need to know?
This is totally due to me not looking it up, but I don’t know how dry cleaning works.
I thought it was called dry cleaning cause they had a method of cleaning where the clothes don’t get wet.
13. Don’t question it, just enjoy it.
I really do not get how a needle in a record player bouncing back and forth can create such rich sound.
I just can’t even imagine how rubbing a needle against vinyl can create a perfect replication of a sound. I get that it could make sound, like a rubbing noise, but to replicate a human voice. What is happening there.
12. They just give zero f**ks.
Those people who do parkour on high ass buildings. One mistake and you’re dead…
Well they get a buzz out of that feeling of risk and so they keep doing it to keep replicating that buzz. If it were safe they wouldn’t do it because there would be no excitement.
I think a better question is: How they don’t die more frequently?
11. Because this is the way of the world.
Why the heck does my brain only realize I’m wrong after I’ve already done it?
This is me playing chess.
10. Maybe talk to someone about that.
Why it’s so damn hard to be happy 95% of the time when you have a stable job, good health, family and everything. Like, I have all of the pieces but something is constantly “missing”.
Ugh.
Side note: I’m fine, it’s just annoying.
9. If we could all figure it out we’d be millionaires.
The Youtube algorithm.
That is some POWERFUL s**t and NOBODY knows how it works.
8. Total weirdos.
People who don’t get nervous when public speaking.
It’s particularly weird for me because I’m a nervous wreck right up until I actually start presenting.
I once did a summer internship thing where we all had to present our stuff at the very end and I had people years later telling me how impressed they were by my confidence.
Little do they know I was strategizing ways of removing myself from the entire situation. “Maybe if I just go to the bathroom and they skip me then forget to come back to me at the end? Or I could pretend to have lost my voice?”
7. It never fails.
The order of emails in a Gmail thread.
The one you are looking for is always hidden somewhere in the middle.
And for some reason it’ll save an email from someone I’ve only emailed once ever 3 years ago, yet the search has no results from an email I sent last week.
6. If you can stay up that late.
Sudden motivation at midnight.
I’ve read that it’s due to there being no pressure or thoughts of what could go wrong.
This is due to the fact that the motivation is typically for things that would be in the future or carry over into the future, and there is no reason to start or finish the things being thought of at that moment.
5. Twitter is its own little world.
I get confused when people post screenshots of twitter. Like sometimes the reply is above the post, sometimes it’s below.
Sometimes there’s a reply both below and above the original post.
I don’t use Twitter so I’m just out of the loop on how it works.
That, combined with the lack of a date/ time stamp, drives me crazy.
“3 Hours Ago” is no help since that only shows the time of the screenshot.
I hate seeing twitter stuff on Reddit and having to guess if its from today or 2018…
4. When you look too hard at yourself.
My intentions when doing things. It seems that I can attribute everything I do to manipulation and attention seeking and it’s kinda unsettling.
Take the introspection one step further. Attention seeking and manipulation are both ways of having ones needs met, try and figure out what need, what you are striving for. Most people want the same basic things; essentially love and safety. Most people who employ these tactics have an external locus of identity meaning their sense of self worth is more informed by the reflection of worth from others rather than from their own understanding of their value.
Attention seeking is very broad but most often when I see that term used I see a person who is trying to ensure that they are recognized as a person of worth, that the people around you care about you and will show that when you need them to. Manipulation is often due to a lack of trust in others meeting ones needs without coercion. Maybe because those needs are not appropriate, or not perceived to be, or the skills to ask/encourage others are underdeveloped. Or maybe you have people in your life who are not interested in meeting your needs when they are expressed in appropriate ways.
Everything we do is meant to meet some need, often trivial but sometimes foundational. Try and understand what need or value could prompt your actions, it can be very helpful in finding better ways to meet them and to understand yourself. Assess if the people in your life would be willing and capable of meeting your needs appropriately. A therapist can be a huge help for both of these.
And remind yourself that you are human, you have needs and have found effective ways of meeting them, ways that likely have been ingrained since you were a kid. Once you better understand those needs you can start finding better ways to meet them. Most importantly, be compassionate with yourself as you explore this. You are human and doing the best you can to survive and be whole. Good luck.
3. It really does blow the mind.
How some people seem to get through life without a job, with no responsibility, no money, and they’re totally fine. Meanwhile, I’m busting my a$$ trying to make a living for myself and my family and struggling.
I have a buddy exactly like this. He’s super charismatic and just has connections that hook him up with all sorts of fun stuff.
He actually wasn’t that great of a friend because he would always blow everyone off because something “better” came along.
2. It’s not for everyone.
How people are capable of learning activities that require repetition to get better at, like art.
I seem to never develop any muscle memory at all, and even without that issue there’s still the problem of not having a structured, trivial-to-follow path to follow, without which I never really remember anything.
1. Like they’re the only person on the road.
Why people when you’re driving have the audacity to pull out in front of you and then drive slow asf when there are literally no other cars around.
Like just wait for me to pass if you’re going to go 5-10 mph under the speed limit.
Even better;
When you see them waiting to turn, and they, FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON, wait until you’re closer to them and then pull out in front of you and go slow.
To be fair, some of these things are hard to grasp, even if we think we should.
What are some things you just don’t get? Unburden yourself in the comments!
