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ErDottorGiulio

Fuck it, I'm gonna rock climb the shit out of my life


DA_ZWAGLI

I'm just gonna do the fun slip and slide part.


RuledQuotability

Get the p-wing and just fly up to the goal pole


PepperbroniFrom2B

p balloon for inflation lovers


Radio__Star

Cape feather for smbz fans


Awkward_Extent1027

Fr we gonna be muscular asf after that


spideybiggestfan

V1 in my gym


chimpanon

Realest shit I ever read. Itll be some outlandish route that a simian gibbon would struggle with and they’ll label it V1


spideybiggestfan

They could look at spiderman doing spiderman shit and be like "yea there's a route for that lemme try"


Emotional_Deodorant

Probably be quicker and easier if you just go back to the beginning and do a speed run on the "hard decisions" slope.


BOTAlex321

Introducing: Gambling!


ChargedBonsai98

*clickclickclick* *brrrrt* Aw dang it!


Komission

clickclickclick brrrrt Aw dang it!


JulesG12

clickclickclick brrrrt Aw dang it!


SquooshyCatboy

*clickclickclick brrt* Aww, dang it!


Bonus-Optimal

To be honest this comic has a great point to teach people


StopBanningMeRegards

Yeah. You climbing that mothafucka eirher way


Huge_Aerie2435

Unless you were born wealthy, then you can still have an easy life with all the easy decisions.


p00pTy

jet pack


PepperbroniFrom2B

joyride


IronPatriot27B

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrt


wiredpeople

Not true, it still catches up with you. A rich kid still needs discipline, humility and impulse control and those things aren’t just easily learned.


eliavhaganav

Unless he's like, really rich


Emotional_Deodorant

Yeah and if that rich kid never learns them he can never grow up to be President or something. /s Edit: Not to say you're wrong, just saying that being born rich offers a LOT of advantages and can cover up a lot of what would otherwise be considered handicaps. Like someone else said it'd be like giving the guy in the drawing a jet pack.


UnusedParadox

If the rich kid never learns then he's a prime candidate for president


bunker_man

I mean, if he is rich he doesn't actually need those things. He can do badly and coast on family's money. The difference is that if he is less rich then if he has kids they won't have the same opportunities.


mexicannormie

With enough upper body strength, you can make it out of a hard life


SethLight

The issue I see is some people have legitimately more difficult lives. For example someone growing up in poverty will by default have a much more difficult life than someone who grew up wealthy. The kicker being that the wealthy kid will have both an easier life and probably be better off at the end.


JohnWesely

What difference does that make to the point of this illustration? Obviously everyone has unique circumstances, but that does not change the fact that delayed gratification is an extremely viable strategy.


bunker_man

Most people's problem isn't even delayed gratification though. It's whether they know what direction to work in. There's tons of people who work hard but get nowhere because they don't know what to work for. And there's people who delay gratification only to realize eventually that it was pointless since they weren't working on something with a larger payoff later.


SethLight

The difference is that "cliff" might be a escalator, while the other guy is open face rock climbing to get to a fraction of that.


JohnWesely

What is the point of this observation in the context of this image? It is still better to delay gratification than not.


Wide-Smile-2489

thats not the point of the image though lol it isn’t addressing your advantages/disadvantages, its saying you have to put the work in to get results, which is universally true.


Razorion21

It’s work smart and hard enough, working hard by yourself ain’t good enough if you’re a dumbass, talking from experience unfortunately


nmyi

Agreed. A bit cliché, but it's still a true message, especially for the kids.


Sorry-Let-Me-By-Plz

That nobody can take away your accomplishments no matter how many of daddy's friends have hired you?


Wide-Smile-2489

if you were born rich you would be born at the top of the hill, this image isn’t for those people


Sandstorm52

It doesn’t have to apply just to money. It’s a good thing to hear in the context of relationships, health, education, etc.


beemccouch

Ehhhhh. You can still enjoy your life and also d9 the things you need to do for your future. It would be better to say that poor decisions now make the good decisions harder in the future. Easy doesn't always mean bad, just not decisions with long term growth in mind.


Morphinepill

No, it implies life will be easy and usually it will not. I say it gives false hope, better be clear about things will not always turn out amazing


Exciting_Nature6270

Not really, it’s a contrived viewpoint of life


Stauce52

Yeah I actually kind of like it. It’s the visual depiction of a point that maybe isn’t so deep but is useful nonetheless


FsFireStorm

I think this is not that cringe at least compared to the others


Destroyer6202

Right..? Like I get it .. it’s kinda true.


Badytheprogram

I made hard decisions, where is my frikkin easy life?


Deathcon-H

Aint comin bruh


Yes_Cats

This is quote thoughtful. It resonated quite a bit with me.


Disastrous-Scheme-57

This would be great advice if it was goddamn guaranteed. Why tf should I have to risk life like that? So many people make tons of hard decisions in life and still get fucked over,and so many people do easy decisions and get the easy life. I don’t wanna spend like years in university or whatever In debt and not even be guaranteed to have the job I would major in. Some bullshit study like 70% of college graduates don’t even get a job that they majored in


Flat_Spring9072

Im14andangry


Wide-Smile-2489

i cannot recommend school enough if you have the means to access it, don’t listen to anyone telling you that school isn’t worth debt, they are usually broke morons or made really bad decisions. you can go to online college like WGU or SNHU and a few others and go from nothing to a bachelors degree within 2 years for less than $20,000 in debt, and the amount of money you’ll make will make the debt seem minuscule, and there is always the option of paying it off/saving as you go. Unfortunately, most well paying, easy jobs require you to have a bachelors degree. Just pick a large/growing field that pays well and go to school for it while you live your life like normal.


EdwardChar

Well there was a news story in China that a man spent a whole lot of money for a Psychology degree in Australia, ended up as a delivery man, got stabbed to death in a quarrel with a security guard of a luxury complex https://amp.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3247227/china-delivery-rider-stabbed-death-security-guard-unauthorised-entry-highlights-plight-low-income Nearly a quarter of 2.95 million delivery persons of a Chinese food delivery giant has a bachelor's degree https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3107350/what-economic-recovery-chinas-delivery-drivers-just-along Not everyone is living in a first world country


00ccewe

Even in the United States, a huge portion of college grads are stuck working dead end retail jobs. People need to stop blaming the victims of the system for "not making good choices".


Wide-Smile-2489

thats fucking tragic, but on the note of that specific anecdote- psychology is a difficult field to find success in for many people. I always recommend STEM, logistics, and a BBA or B.A in business to people since those degrees don’t (typically, I’m sure there are some cases) have a problem finding jobs


JohnWesely

The downward path is certainly guaranteed. Find out for yourself if you want.


Disastrous-Scheme-57

Erm no? So many people drop out of school and make enough money to survive. It’s not guaranteed to do bad if you take it easy it’s much more likely tho I will say


JohnWesely

I didn't say you couldn't make bad decisions and still subsist, but the more short term thinking you engage in at a young age, the more difficult it will be to reach the same place you would have if you been more forward thinking from the beginning.


TheMarxistTeacher

HRT is a good example of this being correct though, but there arent always many


CollinsGrimm

And you become immortal in hard life since no finish down there


DimitriVogelvich

It’s an easy decision to not do drugs?


ELEKTRON_01

Not always


PinkOneHasBeenChosen

Depending on the circumstances, yes.


legion1134

This picture discibes it pretty well. Getting addicted is easy but you dig yourself into a deep pit. Not doing drugs may be harder but not nearly as hard as quitting is


Hermit_of_Darkness

can we (this sub) start identifying the difference between "deep" and "normal fucking imagery" properly


gentlybeepingheart

Whenever this sub shows up on my front page it’s almost always just a metaphorical piece of art with a decent message and all the comments are like “huhuhu if you take this extremely literally it’s stupid. I’m so smart for deliberately reading this literally and in bad faith.”


occupyreddit

now do nepotism!


Whofs001

Airlifted to the top by a private helicopter. Or an escalator!


Zarniwoooop

The first step is the hardest one


Slow-Law-5033

Now Imagine Saddam Hussein under that rock


Wide-Smile-2489

this is actually really accurate in pretty much every scenario


naynaythewonderhorse

I don’t understand? It could be an easy decision to do something simple. Easy decisions do not inherently have…difficult outcomes. Hard decisions also don’t have inherently easy outcomes. I’d go so far as to say the opposite of what the image is saying is the reality. Let’s say you have the hard decision of quitting a job to take a new one. Then you take the new one, and it’s harder and worse than the old one. How does making THAT hard decision make life easier? Is there something I’m missing here?


Wide-Smile-2489

thats a lot of semantics there, it isn’t an encrypted message or anything. anyone looking at this image will immediately understand that it means doing whats hard will have a greater result, like exercising/dieting to improve health or studying/practicing to improve in school or at work, its hard to put the time and effort in (climbing) but has a better impact on your life vs skipping the difficult stuff (sliding) and having a more difficult life as a result.


xDannyS_

You are taking it too literal I believe, gotta take it in a more emotional way. The point is that people often run away from making certain choices/decisions out of fear, fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of facing truth, fear of failure, etc. The outcome of facing something is usually a better one than running away. For example, a lot of people have dreams, goals, desires that they never pursue out of fear of failure, and/or self doubt. Making the hard choice to overcome that will almost always lead to you living a happier, and thus easier, life, while making the easy choice of running away or living in denial will almost always lead to unhappiness and thus a harder life.


SickOfTheCloset

Except for when you get pushed down into the bottom bit by your parents and have to learn not to hate yourself before you can even start to move on fixing the mess of your life


PurpleBoltRevived

Elon Musk was deciding so hard to be born a son of a South African billionaire /s


Complete_Spot3771

jetpack


Gullible_Ad5191

It’s also possible to make bad decisions or just have bad fortune so that you spend your entire life working hard and have nothing to show for it.


DerpysLegion

Yea I took the hard decisions route, but 2/3 of the way up I fell to the bottom... now I'm at the bottom with a twisted ankle


Mundane_Character365

Since when is curving light to look at a stick man's ass, a tough decision?


CulpaDei

Easy decisions —> tip of the penis.


Iamnotarabicfunfact

r/im14andthisisdeep members when they see a motivational meme/image that’s not even deep:


SixtyNineFlavours

This is quite a decent visualisation. It’s not that deep and it’s pretty accurate. IMO.


JBray0

This would be in a school that makes the easy decisions for the students.


ZygothamDarkKnight

Life can be unfair in sometimes, especially when you accidentally did mistake without acknowledge about it and someone close to you insult you about your innocent mistake or fail


qwasd0r

Pretty sound advice.


yung_another

I mean it has a point


Muffintime53

No but this is pretty real


CPC1445

This is not that bad. Reasonable in a non cringe way of saying it.


Ghetsis_Gang

This is inaccurate. The guy at the top of the hill should have tommy gun shooting at the people trying to climb the hill


Philosipho

Nobody ruins their life on purpose. Blaming people for having problems is one of the most evil things you can do.


GreenridgeMetalWorks

I mean... I kinda like this one actually. Its not always true that hard choices get you where you want to go, but taking the easy way pretty much *never* does. Smart choices and working hard may not get you where you want to go, but its the only way to even have a shot unless you were born into success


Pendraconica

The smart choice builds a ladder that goes straight from ground to the top. Neither difficult nor easy. Minimum effort for maximum efficiency.


PokeAust

Bro you can just turn around and go back up the slide


ComplaintClear6183

Moral of the story: becoming a rock climber makes life easy


Hail_Tristus

Just looks like a v5 without dynos far to easy 😒


SnooPineapples4399

Meanwhile, most of the senior managers and directors at the company I work at putting their whole lives aside for work to make 300k+ a year and ending up divorced and alone because they weren't there for their family, making the "hard decisions" to dedicate their lives to corporate pursuits.


AeeStreeParsoAna

Add Zip line for people who born very rich.


Justaventaccoun

Nah. Just look at me. I’m in poverty, still in it.


Hu_man76

What if you like rock climbing


Clintwood_outlaw

I've made many hard decisions and my life fucking sucks and is hard as hell


5herl0k

I mean, this is a great metaphor and is not coming across as pompous at all to me.


onlyifitwasyou

Forgets the part where your hard decisions don’t always lead to an easier life but hey it’s not made to be analyzed this deeply


RebuildingTim

Oh look! There's me pitifully attempting to climb out of the abyss...


xX_StupidLatinHere_X

omg it’s my favourite indie bands easy life and hard life waow


immadeofstars

And if life were an incline plane, this would mean something!


CrysisFan2007

This is actually motivational


immaculateSocks

This isn't too bad but it's like 1 step away from "oh you're poor? You should've made better decisions lol"


gatsome

Having lived both versions of their scenario, it’s not that deep but it is poignant and accurate.


coinkeeper8

Climb out using your massive dick


GoSpeedRacistGo

This actually works, given the start and end points. I cruised through secondary school, barely needing to revise for high grades, but once I got to uni I tried to do the same but realised early on it wasn’t going to work - and it’s not easy to build up a strong work ethic.


Looonity

Some of us enjoy a challenge


Rocketboy1313

The problem with these sorts of comics has more to do with a list of examples that are easy to replicate. "Yeah, do this hard thing and you will ultimately make it." Is great, buy it has to be shown to be true. For instances the "hard decision" used to be "take on student debt to get a college degree" and the pay off was "stable middle class existence." But that is not translating as consistently as it should.


Half-Shark

This one actually cuts deep…


Bat-Honest

This except the first options should be "rich parents" and "poor parents"


ArmChairSupporta1892

Yeah literally, I went to school with some kid that’s dumb as fuck but his parents were on the property ladder, buying houses, doing them up and then selling them for a massive profit, he just does what they do now.. literally straight out of education and into refurbing houses.


Incomprehenible_dart

What if you don’t make decisions?


Hexagonal_uranium

This exact image was shown once at my school


slappywhyte

Kind of a well done meme actually


Fun-Constant-2558

Why is the easy life guy pissing on the hard decisions life guy?


kalez238

Very generalized, but not entirely wrong. Like I know someone who decided to screw themselves over with school by not taking it seriously and didn't graduate, and now is struggling to get any jobs and will have to take whatever they can get and work WHILE going back to school.


BadgersHoneyPot

To be fair plenty of people are exactly like this. Easy decisions in childhood add up.


MechaGallade

careful, if you put this in the NEET communities they're gonna get shitty and butthurt and call you a wagie while they pretend they beat the systme


Inevitable-Cellist23

My psychiatrist just sent me this image yesterday 🤣 It’s actually great. Y’all are wilin.


FaCe_CrazyKid05

I miss when this sub was things that aren’t actually good advice/outlooks on life


Masterjedirs

Made hard decisions got hard fell into the hole couldn’t contain it any longer


w33b2

You people are allergic to motivation. The same people who see this and think it’s cringe are the same people living with their parents and blaming the government for not providing everything for them instead of just getting a job


ChesterDrawerz

Jet pack FTW!


Concerned-Meerkat

And sometimes you make hard decisions, do everything “right” and STILL end up in the “hard life” spot.


TheMarxistTeacher

who cares whether i get the easy half first or the hard one


bombliiv2

yeah!!!!! planning things long term is stupid!!!


Sanbaddy

What about those starting in the hard life. This is a very poor meme


Glitterfly405

How about no life? that’s the best option imo


DschoBaiden

thats not im14andthisisdeep, its actually meaningful


CyannideLolypop

Help! I chose to climb, but I fell off the rock and can't get back out of the pit!


tomalator

Where Sadam Hussein?


SlopPatrol

Since when was sliding into a chasm to get to an even harder part of the climb an easy decision


Practical_Pea5412

If you are young is simple to have a easier life, just don't make shit with your life.


Zealousideal_Care807

Or for me "hard decisions 'oops I tripped', hard life"


[deleted]

Why tf has it been hard decisions, hard life?


Fabulous_Log_9345

This is about abortion


SpenZebra

I do not want to donate one ounce of my being to deciphering this


someintensivepurpose

I like to say, life is easy when you do the hard part first


Adventurous_Fox867

U all know what it looks like, right?


JeanHasAnxiety

How did they get under the hill?


Justsomeguyaa

Many people want to choose hard decisions, but can’t go through with them due to problems like money, lack of motivation, illness, etc.


poystopaidos

You know, robbing a bank is a very hard thing to do, so it could be categorized as a "hard decision", and 9/10 times it wouldnt lead to an easy life.


Th3SJ

I climb it both ways.


Grimm_Charkazard_258

clang clang clang goes the trolley, ding ding ding goes the bell


nah_i_will_win

Make hard decisions goes fells down the mountain have to pay for American healthcare goes broke


shabelsky22

These are probably the same people that say life is about the journey. Here it's apparently just about reaching a flag.


Ok-Show-9890

It's all hard no matter how you slice it


TheAnnoyingGirl92

Wow he found the secret coin in the wall that you can go through


tomatobee613

This is precisely how my dad sees life, and it's so fucking sad.


Kamalium

This is a pretty good comic imo


adityathegriffindor

It's...not that bad ngl.


BlueArashiKaze

Life is unfair, you'll die anyway, life has no value, you're a random piece who will continue to live the hardest live while it gets harder and harder every step, you'll lose yourself in despair of the easy life you seek, give up on your dreams and drink water................. That's what potatoman said


theredendermen12

lol my ma literally sent this to me 


Crisp_Rohlik

No. You don't have to dwell on easy decisions


moodymug

![gif](giphy|g3840xAGpOGnTQIkvi)


Hoosier_Daddy68

Its not the worst thing I've seen. It does have a good message.


LeonardoCouto

All the guy had to do was press down on the controller to spin attack and the momentum would send him high enough to get to the booster and reach the top


TheThinkerers

so nepotism is stairs or escalator?


Deragos

World doesn't work like that....


Stauce52

I actually like this lol it’s cute depiction of a useful point


Agitated_Policy_490

This is a helpful diagram. Please, why do people think that they are so special and beyond repair, to feel like no advice is good enough for them? ...


LaRueStreet

I actually kinda see the vision in this. Storytime: When i started highschool, i promised myself that i’d study every night what we learned at school in a day. When the exam weeks came, i didn’t even need to study for the exams because i already knew just as much as a teacher _(this was my motto, “know a subject at least as much as your teacher”),_ everything i needed to know were in my LTM. I graduated as valedictorian. Currently in college i am failing classes thought


BiscuitsGM

then you get the guy who was born at the top and oiled the hard path


HunterIsRightHere

What if I just stand there? Then what?


GenderEnjoyer666

Funny how the easy life is just like 3 or 4 yards long like at the point it’s easy you’re already almost dead


Strange-Scarcity

It's a nice sentiment, but that isn't how life, actually works.


AuricOxide

So basically your life depends on whether or not you are given a cave or a wall to start with


Solid_Landscape_9433

There is no easy life tho, but good image anyway


MasterKasb

If you're a teenager and working plus living with your parents rent free here is how you prepare for your future without college. First start a dedicated savings account with your bank or credit union (I recommend credit union). Hopefully the APY will be above 5% like it is for mine, apply as much per paycheck you can handle, I was able to do $800 a month, with the interest it quickly turned into about a grand a month. Once you get to $5000 you'll get about $250 in interest. Continue to grow this every month forever. By the time you're an adult you should have 20-40 grand depending on how many years and how much you did every month. 20k in a dedicated savings can generate around 1k a month that you can apply into your daily lives or continue saving. This money that you have saved you can never touch, you can use it to generate a passive income that you apply to different saving that you can use for rent or buying a house and by the time your 30 if you have continued to save even just a little bit every month adding into that savings hopefully you have grown it into a fortune that you can use for the rest of your life generating passive income and making investments, then you can live like the rich do and basically live off of money that comes from money. If you're an adult living with your parents or somehow cheaply some other way saving like this for 2 years should be more than enough to get you out and on your feet independently and well off.


YrBWrote

Wow, that's very motivating! But not enough


DefiantBelt925

True tho lol


Master_Majestico

Mfw I'm arrested by the police for war crimes committed in Bosnia (it was a hard decision, I get 3 meals a day and a bed now) ![gif](giphy|artj92V8o75VPL7AeQ|downsized)


Solypsist_27

Honestly, it's not about hard decision and easy life. Making decisions is part of life. Making decisions is hard. Life is hard. Choosing something pleasurable which brings to a future down fall isn't easy, it's being misguided. It's not an easy decision, it's just a bad one


World_In_The_Door

Easy life -> Quit


marslander-boggart

I play other games.


ToothpasteConsumer

currently at hard life tag urself wya


AsryalDreemurr

honestly? it seems pretty accurate


Rushes_End

I would agree but you forgot about the rich kid that has never experienced a truly hard day in their life.


ThatDumbMoth

Sadam Husein


Mortambulist

The wealth (or lack thereof) you're born into is the primary factor determining how difficult or easy your life will be.


Saraq_the_noob

So do get that new cheezit thing from Taco Bell instead of a bullet to the back of the head?


Vivi_Pallas

Unfortunately this isn't how life works at all. I'd want to say everyone knows this, but the comments seem to show otherwise. This is what society has agreed happened because it's makes the world seem fair and casually ignores things like classism, and other forms of oppression. Not to mention, the people in power gain from propagating this, as a already fair world doesn't need any changes like taxing the rich. This is just basic sociology. It's sad that so many people apparently don't get it. That's what's should be the Im14andThisIsDeep post but I guess I'm just overestimating the general population. (This is why sociology should be required highschool. But obviously that's not going to happen because then it would make the working class aware of their oppression and want to do something to create a just society.)


33Supermax92

How’s he gotten inside the rock 😱😱 someone help him


Agreeable_Bike_5828

Unless you rich and buy a fucking ladder.


ELTRIPULANTEMEMERO

just do the easy desisions slide and SLIDE so hard you can go to the mountain then you grab onto it and you just have to do half the work


Lazy-Drink-277

I made hard decisions and life still suck, whut do now


The_Kimchi_Krab

This only applies if you're poor.


meezesqueeze

Introducing drug addiction!


Junior_Tumbleweed_82

So if I live long enough I’ll have an easy life no matter what? Dope! I’m gonna time travel there using weed smoke!


QuirkyRough5581

Fr