"Being diagnosed with a chronic illness."
"We able-bodied tend to think of disabled people as unlucky but (as has been pointed out) being able-bodied is AT BEST temporary. Everyone will at some point have to face a life of disability unless you die early.
The ADA helps everyone and is one of America's great achievements."
"Sadly, Miscarriage in the first trimester. Some studies estimate as high as 40% of pregnancies terminate by 12 weeks.
Edit: Since this has gained mild traction I figure I should highlight a through-line featured in a lot of comments: normalize talking about miscarriage.
Obviously folks who have experienced a miscarriage should not be forced to discuss it if they aren't comfortable, but I have seen so many first-time pregnancies that miscarried where their first question was "what did I do wrong?" A significant majority of the time, there is nothing they did that triggered it; the more society is able and willing to provide that reassurance, the better off these people will be."
"Dying. Many people take things for granted and do not prioritise right. Something I’ve noticed after I got cancer. Because I made the same “mistake.”."
"Having an important relationship come to a sudden end."
"Being betrayed by someone close to you."
"People often don't realize that everyday accidents, like car crashes or household injuries, have an extremely high chance of happening compared to more dramatic or rare events."
"Complications during labor and delivery.
My wife wasn't high risk with either of our kids. We had no indication that we had anything to be concerned about.
With my first child, he got stuck in the birth canal and had to be emergency vacuum extracted. He likely would have been still born had we not had an OB at the ready to act fast.
My wife hemorrhaged unexpectedly during recovery after delivering our second child. She likely would have bled out had she not been monitored during recovery by labor and delivery nurses, and emergency treated by an OB when the hemorrhage happened.
I know many women want to have their children in different arrangements than a traditional hospital birth, and I respect that. Just understand that having a doula in a birthing center is not the same as a team of labor and delivery nurses along with an OB that has an OR with blood band ready if things go sideways. The likelihood of complications is much higher than many understand. Just because you aren't classified as high risk does not mean you are at zero risk of complications."
"Getting hooked on social media. It happens so quickly and easily without ever realizing it."
"Dropping your phone right after taking off the case."
"Getting diabetes. At least here in the US people really don’t get how deep the deck is stacked against them."
"That thing you needed to find last week? You’ll find it when you don’t need it anymore."
"That we will permanently damage the environment. We aren't going green fast enough and politicians and big businesses keep working against green energy. We are setting ourselves up to be the first species to destroy ourselves because it wasn't profitable to do otherwise."
"A cyber attack or out of control vulnerability shutting down every single non air gapped communications network and computer on the planet, putting us in a quasi stone age for weeks or months. Very real possibility and almost certain to happen in the next decade or so."
"We could die at any moment for any reason. Human body is extremly complex and it's easy to not know what happening with our own body."
"Personal injury. It’s atrociously easy to get hurt in a way that will stay with you for life.
Being aware will mitigate most of that risk.
Drinking severely limits your ability to mitigate."
"Losing your phone or having it stolen. It’s more common than you think, so it’s good to have a backup plan."
"Natural disasters like earthquakes and floods have a high chance of happening."
"Crashing and possibly killing yourself and/or others when you prefer to pay more attention to your phone than the road. Texts and social media can wait until you've parked your car somewhere."
"I'm going to go against the mold here and list a good thing since everything else in this thread is negative:
Getting married. Almost 90% of people will get married in their lifetime but for some it can seem hopeless or nearly impossible."
"Tomorrow being almost identical to today."
"Becoming disabled. There’s so much ableism in the world because people think it could never happen to them."
"Blowing through the ground water and overfishing."
"The US power grid failing. It would have extreme consequences. Just about everything we need and do in American society requires some sort of power. Even the water you drink."
"Another biological outbreak!!!!!"
"If you live long enough, the likelihood of developing some sort of cancer approaches 100% If nothing else gets you first, cancer will eventually."
"Your parents dying. I’m in my mid-thirties and I’m seeing all these posts like “omg, I’m going to lose my mom/dad one day”
"Food shortages. Climate change is destroying croplands and will do so more in the near future."
"A heart attack , I had one 2 week ago , straight out of nowhere ."
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No, it's city planners not putting in sidewalks big enough for wheelchairs, and shelves in stores being tall, and in America ADA is supposed to provide extra funding to make sure these situations are taken care of.
Most plants cant process co2 if temperatures to high. To prevent oxydation damage they shut down photosynthesis and Switch to using up Sugar to survive.
That are the sugars you and i eat.
Changing Rain patterns will erode fertile Grounds and make them unusable die crops.