Everyone Is Making It Up as They Go (Including Adults)
This realization hits hard and oddly brings comfort. The authority and certainty you imagine others have? It’s mostly an illusion.
Most people are improvising based on what they know, what they’ve experienced, and what they’re trying to protect. They’re not following a perfect plan. They’re adjusting in real time.
Understanding this doesn’t mean losing respect for others. It means gaining compassion—for them and for yourself.
You stop expecting perfection and start appreciating effort.
The Real Lesson Behind “I Can’t Believe I Never Knew This”
When you strip it down, that phrase isn’t really about ignorance. It’s about timing.
You didn’t know it before because you weren’t supposed to. You know it now because something in you is ready to use it.
Every realization arrives when it can actually matter.
So instead of cringing at how late the discovery feels, it helps to ask a better question: What does knowing this now make possible?
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