Society shapes us from the moment we are born — through school, culture, family, traditions, expectations, and the rules we’re taught to follow without ever questioning them. Many of these teachings help us, but some of them hold us back, limit our potential, or create illusions that people accept as “truth” simply because everyone else believes them.
We all grow up hearing things that are supposed to guide us, but later in life we discover that they were incomplete, misleading, or completely false. What feels “normal” is not always right. What everyone repeats is not always true. And what society expects from us is not always what leads to happiness or success.
That’s why I want to open this discussion.
In your experience, what do you think is the biggest lie society teaches us — and how did you discover it wasn’t true?
Your answer can be about:
- Life
- Happiness
- Success
- Relationships
- Education
- Work
- Human nature
- Anything you’ve learned through experience
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There is no right or wrong answer.
Just share the truth you have discovered in your own life.
That being a wife, home maker and mother is a waste of a girls life. In the west at least we have it drilled in to us that children, especially had young, will ruin your life.
That if you don’t spend years studying and working first you are somehow achieving less in the world and should be ashamed. In reality there is nothing more important a woman can do than create and nurture future citizens.
At school I saw girls scoffed at and belittled by teachers when they answered ‘A Mother’ to the question ‘what do you want to be?’
Even as we leave school there seems to be a push to see children as a drain on our fun, freedoms and finances.
I find it abhorrent.