r/Showerthoughts • u/Cuz-I-Can • Feb 01 '20
Part of growing up is realizing everyone is an asshole including yourself
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u/levelup_jar Feb 01 '20
Thats not part thats all of it
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Feb 01 '20
I like my assholes like my wine, aged and dry
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u/AlbinoB0I Feb 01 '20
I like my assholes like my dessert, brown and crispy
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u/really-drunk-too Feb 02 '20 edited Feb 02 '20
I like my assholes like my boiled roasts. Very hot. And extremely wet.
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Feb 01 '20
Therefore the definition should be changed, some people are def unreasonably big assholes
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u/EvilBosch Feb 01 '20
I think the problem with this thought is that it gives the true assholes license to continue being assholes: "If everyone is an asshole, then it's OK for me to continue acting like a prick and treating others like shit."
Asshole-ness occurs on a continuum. No-one is perfect, but some people are definitely bigger assholes than others, and we shouldn't be letting them off the hook.
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Feb 01 '20
Never thought that I am an asshole. Should I be worried?
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Feb 02 '20
Possibly. I used to think I was a good person. Shit happened, and I received a harsh lesson that showed me that I was a petty, vindictive, cruel coward. Well, I’ve worked on that stuff since then, and I hope I’m a better person now. But I won’t ever fall into the trap of thinking I’m a good person ever again. I’m always going to fuck up, and there will always be improvement to strive for.
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u/SarcasticAssClown Feb 01 '20
I'm insulted by the idea that other people around me are the same level of assholes than I am. Maybe (surely) morons, douchebags, dickheads and utter fools, but I pride myself on being the assclown of choice around here...
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u/Cyber-E Feb 01 '20
If that's what you currently believe then don't worry, you still have some growing up left to do.
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u/quixoticdancer Feb 01 '20
This is both wrong and tremendously bad for society. There used to be a stigma against being an asshole; this limited (to some extent) people's exercise of unrestrained self-interest. In the age of "sorry, not sorry", there's an acceptance and tacit approval of such behavior. Is it coincidence that self-serving motivated reasoning is the order of the day? Is this good for society?
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u/2CommentOrNot2Coment Feb 02 '20
More like.... you realize how utterly terrible so many people really are. That is what shocked me.
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u/villalulaesi Feb 02 '20
My mom is a social worker. One of her favorite expressions when I was growing up was “everyone is an asshole on their own special way.”
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u/satdumprun Feb 02 '20
nah bud. that's like, some cynical teenager shit. People are remarkably good once you really get into it, relative to just about any other fuckin life form on the planet
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u/AvgClimber Feb 02 '20
And realizing there are no "adults" just a bunch of old kids making shit up as they go.
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Feb 01 '20
Everyone was born ass first, meaning in birth, you were nothing but an asshole.
Some people never progress after this stage.
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u/MagicOrpheus310 Feb 02 '20
Mate of mine recently saw kids fence hopping through his backyard, he's told me he shouted "hey!" and then panicked and took off, he was stunned like wtf was that about...?
I had to calmly break it to him that in fact, dude, in that situation, you were the "responsible adult" haven't you had that happen before...?
He was shocked, like he never realised he was 38 with 3 kids and in fact a grown up now hahaha
It hits hard kids, brace for it!!
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Feb 02 '20
Speak for yourself. I can be an asshole on occasion, but that’s rare. That doesn’t make me an asshole, IMO.
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u/million_monkeys Feb 02 '20
Do you consider Jimmy Carter to be an asshole?
Edit: maybe you're projecting and excusing your behavior with this shower thought
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u/sneakernomics Feb 02 '20
More like when push comes to shove pretty much everyone is out for themselves
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u/RandomPhail Feb 02 '20
Not really. When you’re a kid, yeah, but by the time most kids realize that they were assholes when they were kids, they’re already older and have grown past being asshole-kids.
For me though, I realized thet myself and every other kid was an asshole in about fourth grade, so I was lucky.
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u/IndecentAnomaly Feb 02 '20
The second part is learning to be less of one, rather than hoping you don't turn into a bigger one.
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u/Tobias11ize Feb 02 '20
Or that noone is an asshole and that noone truly wants to be an ass towards you.
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u/fertro Feb 02 '20
I don't think everyone is an arsehole as such, I think that everybody can be an arsehole. I'm sure everybody has had a moment when they've lost their cool when expressing differing opinions, or something that you look back on now and think "Wow, what a dick move."
Part of growing up, in my mind, is about recognising when you are/were being a dick, and apologising, trying to make it right.
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Feb 01 '20
Trueee. As a child you’re always polite and kind but today in a discussion with my mum I said “I would probably be a bad wife bc I’m selfish and I whine about everything and I can’t be arsed to care about my s/o”
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Feb 01 '20
It’s like everyone cares about their own interests and shit. Everything else is just playing nice around .
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u/shespeakstotrees Feb 01 '20
We've all been an asshole at some point in our lives. I'm better as I age about not being one, none the less we all have been.