Irony presented in life?

Question

What are examples of irony that is present in one's life?

Answer 1

[edit] Situational irony

An example of situational irony — the unintended aptness of the sign and its surroundings is ironic.Players and events coming together in improbable situations creating a tension between expected and real results. Situational irony occurs when the results of a situation are far different from what was expected. This results in a feeling of surprise and unfairness due to the odd situation.

Examples:

A shipboard scene of reconciliation and hope for an estranged couple ends with the camera pulling back to reveal a life preserver stenciled “RMS Titanic.”
A situation immortalized in O. Henry's story The Gift of the Magi, in which a young couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts. The man finally pawns his heirloom pocket watch to buy his wife a set of combs for her long, prized, beautiful hair. She, meantime, cuts her hair to sell to a wigmaker for money to buy her husband a watch-chain. The irony is two-fold: the couple, having parted with their tangible valuables, is caused by the act to discover the richness of the intangible.
A man goes over a giant waterfall e.g. Niagra Falls in a barrel and survives, only to take a cleanup shower where he slips on the soap and dies from trauma and drowning.
An anti-capitalist website sells anti-capitalism t-shirts for a profit.
A house is burnt down by a fire, the owner is deeply depressed by it when later discovered that the cause of the fire was by stress relief candles.
A firehouse burns down.
A police car gets stolen.

[edit] Irony of fate (cosmic irony)
The expression “irony of fate” stems from the notion that the gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals, with deliberate ironic intent. Closely connected with cosmic irony, it arises from sharp contrasts between reality and human ideals, or between human intentions and actual results. Minor examples are daily life situations such as the rain that sets in immediately after one finishes watering one’s garden, following many days of putting off watering in anticipation of rain. Sharper examples can include situations in which the consequences are more dramatic.

For example:

The artist Monet's loss of vision, but not hearing.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s loss of hearing, but not vision.
The 1956 loss by fire of the top of Harvard’s Memorial Hall tower, while being restored by workmen to make sure it would last for generations.
Both tetraethyl lead and the chlorofluorocarbon Freon-12 were invented as safe chemicals (both by Chemist and mechanical engineer Thomas Midgley), and intended for wide environmental use. However, both compounds were environmental disasters: the first resulting in widespread lead poisoning, and the second class of compounds in widespread harm to the ozone layer.
American astronaut Gus Grissom's death inside Apollo 1 may have been partly because of a spacecraft redesign that he had recommended after the Mercury-Redstone 4 mission. After a Mercury hatch opened prematurely, nearly causing his death, Grissom had recommended the Apollo hatch be made more difficult to open. The new hatch proved too difficult to open.
At the turn of the 19th century, Charles Justice, a prison inmate at the Ohio State Penitentiary, devised an idea to improve the efficiency of the restraints on the electric chair. After a parole, he was convicted in a robbery/murder and returned to prison 13 years later under a death sentence. On November 9, 1911, he was electrocuted in the same electric chair that he had helped to improve.[citation needed] One might say that his name was 'Justice', it would be ironic that he went through the justice system. However, it is best described as 'coincidence', as nobody would expect a person's last name to influence his behavior (see nominative determinism).
Organic farming and health expert J.I. Rodale declared in a New York Times Magazine interview on June 4, 1971 that "I'm going to live to be 100, unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver". The very next day he was a guest on The Dick Cavett Show and appeared to fall asleep while another guest was speaking, only to be found dead of a heart attack.

[edit] Historical irony (cosmic irony through time)
When history is seen through modern eyes, it sometimes happens that there is an especially sharp contrast between the way historical figures see their world and the probable future of their world, and what actually transpired. When the World War which began the 20th century was called The War to End All Wars, this later became an example of historical irony. Historical irony is therefore a subset of cosmic irony, but one in which the element of time is bound up. Examples:

When the telephone was invented, some people were especially quick to see the possibilities. One man even said: "I can easily see that every town will want one."
Contrasting statements were made at the dawn of computers, which were initially thought to be devices never capable of use outside a government or academic setting.
Historical irony is often encapsulated into statement:

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Nearly the last words of American Civil War General John Sedgwick [1]
In response to Mrs. Connally's comment, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you." John F. Kennedy uttered his last words, "That's very obvious."

Answer 2

IRONY it is the cruel way to joke of the life, the forced smile in a hurtled heart, the smooth sour rending of the humiliated in front of they defeater, the negation of what we have and not what we think we deserve........
A men was building with love and patience his home; jealous of any intruder around that could damage any of his loved ones, always was ready to jump.....yes, he was a very meticulous person regarding the example his family could receive...he was spending lots of the time watching around to keep them safe.......may be too much.........kids growth to fast.......one day he did realized that was no one in home any more to take care about, all of them was gone......and he did not do what matter most....... cultivate love inside that home......i didn't do the kind of love that needs to be cultivated in there......he was alone i might be not his fault, but in a second he did lost what he was caring with all his life, his home,...................and also lost what he was not caring that much with his home........his life.
TO LEARN THE REAL MEANING OF LOVE, YOU DON'T NEED TO LOVE TO MANY, BUT ONE, WHICH MATTER MOST, YOURSELF; IF YOU LOVE YOURSELF, THEN YOUR KIDS WILL COME LIKE THE LITTLE BIRDS GO TO MOM, TRYING TO GET COVERED UNDER THAT BIG CAP OF LOVE, THE ONLY PLACE TO BE SAFE...UNDER THE CARE OF A MOTHER.
Another man always was hard with his family, because he knew that the world it was a battlefield full of tricks and lies, he was always prohibiting any thing that could represent any deviation of what he tough was better for their loved ones, that what he did never had.....but he did always wish.......
but the family it is like the sand in the beach, and to try it you can make you own choice..
*be watching it how it goes with the water of the sea and gets lost, but you know it will come back and it will be always there.. because in the end it has no place to go....or may be it will never come back
* or take it in your hand and then close it firmly trying to don't let it go away... but you will be surprised when you decides to open your hand and realize that may be it is not more sand on it, just little traces of what it was there, all the sand will be gone.....
*or may be you decides to take it smoothly and easy like if it was something fragile, something that needs to receive hand handling no fist handling.......................you will see that no matter how long you have it in your hand it will stays there, until you decide, with the water as the life that they will go like if they was not wishing to go, but the life just will do what it is suppose to do....take them apart to make new life....
One man always was proud of what he said he was, a MAN, a macho man, always laughing about what he said was not normal people......homosexualism it is not a choice that you can make, it is the life with make it for you....we just receive what it is given to us....simple like that..... but the man did never think that his only son would be born with that characteristic.....
What you people think that it is the right thing to do? ...give the back to the own blood? .... accept what ever be no matter what consequences could bring to with in? or just don't care about?
irony it is not just a joke, it a punishment, it is a learning lesson, it is a gift, it is the life multiple ways to teach all of us that no one has to say “I AM“, with out see and say first the names of all those around us, close to us...and even far away of us.......
“I was always a bad kid” my best friend said to me once before, “i did droop school early and my mother was very sad, but she did punish me with this: EVERY DAY FROM THAT DAY ON, I WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE OF COOKING AND WASHING OF THE DISHES UNTIL THE DAY I LEFT HOME...looking for a job, one place to another, in the end i did stop here; 2 positions was available, one for dishwasher and the other for coking........i was sorry of did not learn from my mother last attempt to make me learn something..........to cook.......now, after 15 years i am in here, still washing dishes..........that it is irony.........
more irony?.........it is every day...............everywhere.........in every one...
THAT IT JUST WHAT I THINK... my excuses if you do disagree, my excuses if it is any misspellings in my writing...