Failure Is the Only Option/Real Life

Examples of Failure Is the Only Option in Real Life include:

• Death is unavoidable. No matter how healthy, accomplished or fruitful a human being's life has been, the longest it will last will be little more than a century at most.
• The Game, a mental game where you lose the game when you think of it. There's no winning condition for most versions, so the best you can do is avoid losing for as long as possible.
• In 2011, a twenty-year-old woman came forward claiming to have been knocked up in 2010 by the then-sixteen-year-old Justin Bieber, and attempted to sue him for compensation. If she had been telling the truth, she could have been charged with statutory rape. Since she was lying, she could be charged with making false accusations. She did not think this through.
• On TV Tropes, anything listed on the Permanent Red Link Club is basically this. If a trope or page gets so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like; and the page cannot be fixed, the entire page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) will be deleted and never to be used again. Forever.
  • Similarly, anything that upsets a member of the P5 or other admins. It's very easy to find yourself permanently banned for contributing in good faith but on a forbidden topic or with too many errors.
• As the page quote suggests, the universe is apparently like this. You can never get more energy out of a system than you put in, you can never recover all of the energy you put into a system, and you can never avoid entropy, even at absolute zero. Good luck with those perpetual-motion machines!