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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.

OP posts:
crabbiearses · 24/02/2016 10:15

id say the same about any man .

hmcAsWas · 24/02/2016 10:19

Thanks MattD'sPants

She's even more irritating now I've seen her Instagram photos - painting topless, who does that !

whatdoIget · 24/02/2016 10:21

So this is about a real person? I thought it was just a meme. How nice that people are now criticising her appearance on mumsnet Hmm

Suckituplady · 24/02/2016 10:22

I can understand criticising her writing, but her looks really have nothing to do with this....whether she's young or old? I think it's spiteful and mean to talk about someone looking like a tanned leather hide. And she's utterly beautiful in my eyes, but hey....we all have different taste.

whatdoIget · 24/02/2016 10:23

She looks lovely to me and I've reported the thread

whatdoIget · 24/02/2016 10:24

I'm actually shocked that this is a real person and the op thinks it's ok to do this

Suckituplady · 24/02/2016 10:25

Well done whatdoiget So much vitriol on here, I'm shocked.

hmcAsWas · 24/02/2016 10:26

Why on earth are you reporting a perfectly good thread when only one post criticises her appearance (which may not be good form, but I don't think it is against Mn talk guidelines)

I hope that Mn HQ gives your report suitably short shrift

drspouse · 24/02/2016 10:28

I've taken the "chicken bus" (though generally with the chickens on the outside in cages) while working next to a tropical ocean in a job that paid a pension and most of the time paid into my UK taxes so I feel totally justified in getting them to look after my increasingly creaky body now.

And I've sat round a campfire of an evening and gone to church as well not always the following morning.

I used loads and loads of factor 50 and sat in the shade like the sensible locals do so don't look like an old boot, though as most of my overseas work was before bottled water was widely available I did drink rather too much sugary fizzy drinks and the NHS has just shelled out for root canal work. Sorry, NHS.

shovetheholly · 24/02/2016 10:29

I suspect she will wear the odium of these posts as a badge of honour, because I reckon some of them represent exactly the kind of attitudes she's positioning herself against. And good on her for enjoying a different set of values from many people on here. Is that really so very threatening?

Mightywease · 24/02/2016 10:31

If I lay in the middle of a dirt road looking at the moon I'd just start to worry what might be crawling into my hair!!

Nothing wrong with wanting to look for happiness in the everyday or taking opportunities that are offered but this just smacks of "my life is better than yours because I am soooo extraordinary" and that unless happiness is found outside of the 'norm', whatever that is, it isn't valid, Rather selfish and judgemental in my view.

whatdoIget · 24/02/2016 10:31

hmc I've stated why I've reported and it's up to mnhq to decide what to do

Furiosa · 24/02/2016 10:31

Oh come off it!

Vitriol?! Confused

TwatMagnet · 24/02/2016 10:31

I thought I was swimming naked with bioluminescence once. Turned out I'd just pissed in the bath after too many froot shoots

As for whatdoiget - anyone who puts their ramblings and shittings out there is going to get it critiqued. Inevitable. We're laughing at her witterings not at her looks/shape/beliefs/whatever.

AustinAmbassadorYReg · 24/02/2016 10:31

I agree with most of it, except this -
eat green mango with sugar in a plastic bag sold from the woman who harasses the bus each time it stops.

I'd rather have a Twix.

APlaceOnTheCouch · 24/02/2016 10:32

too much sugary fizzy drinks
drspouse Was it Fanta from glass bottles? That's what I remember drinking in places where there wasn't much bottled water Grin

I think the 'poem' lady is hoping for some type of 'Eat, Pray, Love' book and film deal - which also explains why it irritated me because I hated that book.

BadgersBum · 24/02/2016 10:32

I think she protests too much, couldn't get the grades to get into University, never got proposed to by her bf and is stamping her foot in a "Well, I didn't really want that thing I so obviously wanted, type of a way".

Haven't clicked the link as I think she should have remained as anonymous as we are allowed to be on here.

TwatMagnet · 24/02/2016 10:33

Oh. Someone did criticise her looks? Must have missed that. Bit naughty. But the OP didn't so your grounds for reporting the thread are tenuous at best. Would you be happier in and amongst the huns what?

BadgersBum · 24/02/2016 10:34

Crying at Bill and the Froot Shoots!

DustyBustle · 24/02/2016 10:35

It's one thing to be taking the piss out of her wanky poetry, but being unkind about her physical appearance is a bit low tbh.

Furiosa · 24/02/2016 10:36

ONE person made fun of how she looks.

whatdoIget · 24/02/2016 10:36

It's the fact that she's a real person and has now been linked to. I accept the writing is terrible and some of the sentiments are fairly unpleasant, but, and I know I can't know this, she seems quite vulnerable. Maybe that's just the assumption I make about people who post constant picture of themselves ie that they are insecure. I just think it seems a bit much. She might be a right twat for all I know and I'm certainly no fan of this kind of self-publicity.
Anyway I've reported and mnhq can do as they please Smile

KatharinaRosalie · 24/02/2016 10:38

What's with the 'no no, I don't want to get married, no not me'. Protest much?

And yes I've swam in bioluminescent lakes, and I still have a pension. Not mutually exclusive.

whatdoIget · 24/02/2016 10:39

Haha yes I'll go over to netmums immediately, tail between my legs!

Maybe it's just a bit close to home for me because I'm getting on a bit now and quite aware of how critical people can be about how older women look.

No need to panic everyone, it's only someone reporting a thread Confused

Furiosa · 24/02/2016 10:41

In case this thread gets zapped I just want to bump Skiptonlass comment

"Is she a Vogon with a trust fund?"

I haven't laughed in weeks. Thanks skipton