My Fiancé’s Secret Christmas Plans Left Me Feeling Invisible

“To grow up” — a verb that as kids sounds full of promises: independence, freedom, being able to choose your own breakfast without anyone telling you anything. But what no one tells you is that, as time goes by, those illusions are mixed with unexpected bills: pain in new places, friendships that grow cold, and a sense of nostalgia that appears when you least expect it.
On the internet, hundreds of people decided to tell those hard truths-the ones that aren’t in the movies or motivational speeches-about what getting older really entails. We gathered 20 of the most shocking, brutal and, at the same time, poignant.
Growing older is not only adding years, it is learning to live with new certainties, and, many times, with the loss of others. Some truths hurt, others wake us up, but they all have something in common: they remind us that we are constantly changing. If you were left wanting more raw, but oddly comforting confessions, don’t miss this other compilation that will make you think... And laugh for not crying.