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To be irritated by this Facebook post?

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MattDillonsPants · 24/02/2016 06:50

I think it's an actual poem but not certain....either way it's frigging stupid. We all, as adults have to take responsibility for ourselves. This post seems to suggest that being an eternal backpacker is a good idea!

I don't think so and I suspect it was written by someone in their late 20s who still has the energy to "bathe in bio-luminescence and lie in a dirt road staring at the moon"

FFS. Hmm

I will never be a well behaved woman.

I would rather pass my days lying in the middle of dirt roads, staring at the full moon with a bottle of summer red in my palms.

I would rather have kids when it suits me, not when society expects or throws shoulds.

I would rather live in a hammock on a beach for six months, and write like my soul means it.

I would rather be horribly broke at times, than married to a job because a mortgage payment has my ass on a hook.

I would rather own moments, than investments.

I would rather eat alone, than sit with women who bore me at 'Wives’ Night.”

I would rather swim naked with bioluminescence, have it fall like fireflies from my hair, my breasts, my back.

I would rather do handstands naked in the moonlight when no one’s watching than pick bridesmaid dresses.

I would rather drink seven year old rum from a sandy bottle, smell of smoke and ash than sit in church.

I would rather learn from life than rack up debt, in a desk.

I would rather drink the ocean, again and again—celebrate being madly alive.

I would rather my love be defined by love itself, and nothing more or less.

I don’t need a ring on my finger to prove that I am in love.

I would rather take the chicken bus, than spend useless money in safe gated communities. Sit beside a goat, listen to raggaeton and eat green mango with sugar in a plastic bag sold from the woman who harasses the bus each time it stops.

I do not need a degree to prove that I am intelligent.

I do not need to own a piece of earth with some wood on top of it—to feel successful. No one truly owns the land, anyway—we just think we do.

My savings account has diddly to do with my richness.
I would rather sprawl my single ass out like a lioness each morning and enjoy each corner of my empty bed.

I will take a job I love and freedom over a pension, any day.

I will not work and work and work to live when my body is old and I am tired.

Stocks are for people who get boners from money.

Not everyone should have kids, and my eggs aren’t expiring.

I will not drink the societal Kool-Aid on a bus, nor will I drink it on a train.
Not on a plane, with a goat, in the rain, in the dark, in a tree, with a fox, in a box!

I will not jump through societies’ hoops and red tape, the treasure hunt in the rat race we chase.

If we must have milestones—mine will be measured by how much joy I have collected at the end of each day and how often in this life I have truly, deeply, opened.

Seek, see, love, do.

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 24/02/2016 09:28

I wish someone would put this on my timeline! I would comment

"That's nice dear"

KeyserSophie · 24/02/2016 09:34

Ugh. It's the worst kind of twatty bollocks written/shared by people desperate to be considered a speshul snowflake. This would be a defriend crime for me.

Pidapie · 24/02/2016 09:34

Haha, oh deary me. What nonsense.

Baboooshka · 24/02/2016 09:35

I used to live in California and my FB feed is full of this! You are nobody if you're not Instagramming yourself in a bikini doing yoga on a Cuban beach whilst chanting Affirmations and bonding with the real genuine locals who sell you a freshly-caught fish for dinner. #yum #cleanliving #purity #betterthanyou #payattentiontome #alternativelife #escapeconsumerism #stillgotaniPhone

I find posts like this as status-oriented as anyone boasting about their new SUV and kids' private school. It's a first-world luxury to pride yourself on doing bog-all whilst not for one second worrying that you'll starve.

KeyserSophie · 24/02/2016 09:39

baboooshka

I think you'll find you missed one

#3rdgenerationspendsit Grin

TheMrsD · 24/02/2016 09:41

It's a bit negative about women. I don't like it. Bet the 'poet' hasn't done any of those cliche things!

TheMrsD · 24/02/2016 09:42

Grin baboushka

2legit2knit · 24/02/2016 09:43

God that's annoying. Stuff like this just makes me roll my eyes and think "Here have a medal, aren't you fucking wonderful".

TheMrsD · 24/02/2016 09:44

They have time to post it on Facebook. Facebook being essential whilst swinging in your hammock with bugs in your hair.

TheOptimisticPessimist · 24/02/2016 09:46

Wardrobe Grin that made me snigger.

I'm in my early 20s and I know plenty of people my age that would think this perfectly encapsulates what life is about. God help us.

I switched off at the bit about holding summer red in your palms. It's just bad writing from someone with a wanky attitude. Im all for travelling the world and having a family when and if it suits you, absolutely, but slamming those that don't because you're on your high horse about your non-conformity because you like to feel special and free is just unpleasant.

Some of the best times of my life have been in far flung places, travelling, meeting locals and seeing some incredible sights, but I did that by taking holidays from my job so I was still progressing my career, because I'd quite like a pension and somewhere to call home when I'm 70 thanks.

I'd also love to know how long each photo takes to perfect because you know they aren't like that on the first shot. Why bother spending time in these incredible places if all you're doing is taking selfies or posing for other people? It's not candid, it's not real. It just feels completely contrived and try hard, the opposite of freedom and adventure.

crabbiearses · 24/02/2016 09:48

my goodness she's certainly a sun worshipper , she looks like a tanned leather hide.

Suckituplady · 24/02/2016 09:52

Why the need to criticise her looks? She looks tanned and healthy to me. Absolutely gorgeous.

iamEarthymama · 24/02/2016 09:52

It's the cruelty to words that gets me, it is dreadful!

rogueantimatter · 24/02/2016 09:53

If you're really contented you probably don't need to tell everyone about it.

It's a reminder to spend less time on social media more than anything else IMO Mumsnet excepted of course Grin

TheMrsD · 24/02/2016 09:55

What photos?

whatdoIget · 24/02/2016 09:55

Drinking from the ocean again and again doesn't sound like a brilliant idea

TheMrsD · 24/02/2016 09:56

I've never considered mn social media before. It's where I get all my news and facts.

bleedingheart · 24/02/2016 09:59

One might suspect she is as yet unsuccessful writer protesting too much about not needing a best seller or selling a screen play.

"I would rather live in a hammock on a beach for six months, and write like my soul means it."

Stick that on some drift wood and flog it in a 'boutique,' that'll cover the cost of a few mangoes.

hmcAsWas · 24/02/2016 10:08

Where can I find a photo of her? I am curious to see the author

MattDillonsPants · 24/02/2016 10:09

Bleeding Grin I'm sure there'd be plenty of unenlightened chicken bus folk who'd queue up to spend their hard earned koolaid money on that!

"Driftwood moments given from my heart" or something.

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Aussiemum78 · 24/02/2016 10:09

Sounds like something my sister would say to me.

She's currently looking forward to paying rent for the rest of her life, working a dead end job and retiring in poverty.

But she did holiday through her whole 20s, so that's cool.

MattDillonsPants · 24/02/2016 10:09

hmc there's a link to her Instagram I put in up thread.

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crabbiearses · 24/02/2016 10:13

Why the need to criticise her looks? She looks tanned and healthy to me. Absolutely gorgeous.

Just an observation, she's talking like she's an 18 year old young thing, i was just surprised to see the leather bag type complexion, i guess its all that sunning herself drinking rum.

APlaceOnTheCouch · 24/02/2016 10:14

Meh, that's annoying. It's poorly written and it's also so cliched. She's just swapping one type of conformity for another. She's rejecting the 'working/marrying/mothering' lifestyle for the 'eternal almost-naked student gap year' lifestyle. And it's so self-obsessed. I reached the end and thought they were protesting too much tbh and also give them 5 years and they'll probably be doing all the stuff they are despising

gandalf456 · 24/02/2016 10:15

I probably would have annoyed me 10 or 20 years ago but it makes me feel wistful now about the Freedom you have when you're very young so no it doesn't annoy me. I don't know what a chicken bus is, though, and I've never held wine in my palms. In my hands, yes but I don't know how I could work out how to drink it from my palms