Heartbroken People Reveal The Most Vicious Thing Anyone Ever Said To Them
“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair.
Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.” —Yehuda Berg
As the old saying goes: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will leave emotional scars that will never heal.
Trapped in a world of language, humans have no choice but to use words, and it’s pretty hard not to fall into the truly harmful ones. Everyone has a story about the sayings that went too far.
Accordingly, Reddit asked people to share the single most hurtful words that have left them haunted to this day.
From the barely said break-ups to parents who just didn’t believe in us, here are 42 traumatic tales about the most hurtful words ever uttered to fellow humans.
42. Not All’s Well That Ends Well
It was when my grandmother called me at 11 at night and said that my mom was basically at a point where we could either pull the plug or try to give her a comfortable life as a vegetable, and that my dad had decided to pull the plug.
41. Offline Forever
When I had been chatting to a very close internet friend. He mentioned he was going to have an operation, and that he'd be back in a week.
A month later, he finally came back. Except it wasn't him.
It was his sister, telling me that he'd passed away and wanted to tell me that I was "weird and fun and a person he could talk about anything to." I cried right there reading it, because we would've met in the summer.
I still look at his profile sometimes and wish that his icon will turn green, and he'll come back.
40. “C” You There
"You're never going to be an engineer. Illinois or Purdue won't take you. You'll end up at a factory job like the rest of the idiots in your school" from my dad after I got a C on an AP physics test.
