Photos Where the Moment of No Return Has Come and Gone

It's really hard for anyone to accept defeat, even when odds are against us and we still have a little bit of hope left. But sometimes, the situation is so clearly not in our favor that we have no choice but to accept our terrible fate with open arms. We don't have to like it, but fighting it is only going to make things harder for us. In other words, the point of no return has come and gone and we're stuck with the consequences of our actions.

A message that you shouldn't have sent, a quick DIY fix that's going to cost you extra in the future, a jump you thought you could make, or that one time you thought you could take all your shopping bags from the car to your house in one trip but you clearly couldn't. Those humbling situations bring important lessons we often ignore, and here are some of them.