🪞 Complaint Diary vol.1

"Effort never betrays you" is an unkind phrase.

Effort does betray you. At the very least, it betrays you when it comes to the "expected results."
How many people have had their dreams crushed because they took the words "effort will be rewarded" at face value?
Because of that phrase, how many people have blamed themselves for "not being rewarded"?
In reality, effort isn't about the "result"; it's about the "proof."
——It's just the fact that you were indeed living properly at that time, and that trace remains.
But the phrase "effort never betrays you" skips all of that.

It's as unkind as a game strategy guide that has had the final boss removed.
That's why it feels like a lie.
It's not a phrase to encourage someone; it has become a "spell to silence those who are putting in the effort."
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🧠 Huh. POINT: Psychologically speaking, the more people believe that "effort will be rewarded," the more they blame themselves for "failure," leading to higher tendencies toward depression (self-causal attribution). That's why, in reality, it's better to think, "Effort betrays you, but experience doesn't."