🧠 Socrates Café Chiang Mai: Hard Pills to Swallow

### 🧠 Socrates Café Chiang Mai: Hard Pills to Swallow

📅 Saturday, August 9th | 🕛 12:00 PM – 2:45 PM
📍 Hideaway Café, Chiang Mai
💸 Minimum spend: 250 THB on food/drinks

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"What truths about ourselves or the world do we resist accepting?"
Some truths are bitter.
That people we love may not love us back the same way.
That effort doesn’t always lead to reward.
That we, too, have caused harm.
That not everyone gets a happy ending.
This week’s discussion explores those “hard pills to swallow”—those quiet, painful realizations that challenge how we see ourselves, others, or life itself. Why do we resist certain truths? How do we grow from facing them? And is acceptance always the answer?
As always, no philosophy degree needed. Just bring curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to listen and reflect.
🟢 Everyone is welcome.
🟢 Bring your mind—and your heart.

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💬 RSVP to join the conversation. Limited seating available.
📩 Questions? Message the host.

Hard Pill to Swallow – Description
A hard pill to swallow is a painful truth or difficult realization that shakes us—one we often resist, deny, or delay accepting because it challenges our ego, identity, or hopes. It’s the moment when we finally confront something we’ve known deep down all along, but refused to admit.
It might be the realization that a relationship you’ve poured yourself into isn’t healthy and never was. That someone you trusted is never going to change, no matter how much you love them. That your dream job isn’t fulfilling. That your parents won’t ever understand you. That your body, your mind, or your time has limits.
It's that silent, sobering pause when hope meets reality—and reality wins.
It doesn’t come with drama. It comes in quiet moments: staring at a message that never comes, watching the clock in a job that drains you, standing in the mirror feeling unfamiliar with your own reflection.
We all carry some truth we’re avoiding. Swallowing that pill doesn’t mean giving up. It means seeing clearly, finally, and beginning again—this time, grounded in truth. It’s bitter—but it’s where real healing begins.