that a friend who professes to have life 'sussed' annoys the shit out of me?

[Nemo1986]

Her facebook looks like this:

'The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away'

'You are so much more valuable and wonderful than you could ever imagine! Love yourself x'

'I have thrown away my television because I don't need it in my life anymore'

And close-up photographs of dandelions, etc.

We are old friends of 10+ years but this started about 6 months ago when she moved out of the city to the countryside, quit her job and started retraining as a holistic therapist. Last time we met up was constantly talking about how the mind 'really' works and what the body 'really' needs and what people 'really' want in their lives and what is 'really' going on in the world and while I am very happy that SHE has done some soul-searching and found what works for her, the smugness is driving me up. the. bloody. wall!!!

I know I just sound like a case of sour grapes, but truly it's not! I am very happy with my own circumstances and life choices but she is STILL driving me NUTS!! How can I stop myself from getting riled?!

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AIBU?!

I get like this with exercise wankers.

ESPECIALLY if it's someone who has hopped on the bandwagon, gone absolutely bananas posting check ins at the gym, sharing motivational trite and pictures of their rabbit food - only to fall hard and fast off the exercise choo choo train with a silent protest.

I somehow manage to drag my fat arse to the gym three times a week and do fitness classes without letting the whole world and their auntie know I'm on #missionhealthy

She doesn't need her telly because she's still got her phone, or a laptop, or whatever else enables her to post on FB. Hardly worth a back-patting session.

Oh god Plinky dil is into some weird thing with a metal bowl vibrating sounds with a soft dinger thing . She paid out good money (that she doesn't have) for a weekend course in it.

I detest all these indulgent, attention-seeking types of posts, the hashtag thing at the bottom of these make me cringe...

Just awful- whether it is baking a cake, running LO around the park, checking into the gym or donating to a good cause-WHY share it? I genuinely boggle where these people get the time and what they did before?!

this started about 6 months ago when she moved out of the city to the countryside

Wait until she's spent a winter in the countryside. There are no dandelions in the winter and the TV becomes much more appealing when it's pitch black at 4pm and any source of entertainment involves a trip out in the pissing rain.

never forget its YOUR Facebook OP & you can control what you see.
Unfollow her so you don't have to see all this tripe.

Yeah, she's obviously still on social media, which could be seen as much worse than telly for your mental health.

I just block friends like that, don't unfollow so you can still have a peek at what they are up to but you don't get riled on a daily basis by their nonsense.

YANBU. Your post made my brain itch I couldn't stand listening to that gumpf from a "reborn" friend. I mean its great when people are happy but when they become evangelical about it and can talk about fuck all else its boring and annoying. Not to mention sounds as if they're trying to convince themself they have found the key to life and don't really have it sussed at all its a "happiness illusion"

I don't mean block, I mean hide...

ppeatfruit I never knew there was such a thing as a 'worldwide womb blessing' until now. And that PMS is actually a time for 'destruction and creation with the magician archetype'. Personally, I've always felt it's a time to eat chocolate and watch something Austen-y.

New age stuff is weird!

Oh God... I bet she describes herself as "blessed". Yes dear, the world chose you for all this wonderfullness because you are so special.

Those little sayings made me do a bit of sick in my mouth

Ha, I'd go out for a cup of hibiscus and ginger tea with her, once anyway! I'm reading an excellent book called If women rose rooted, and it's about listening to your inner voice and connecting with nature etc.... I am really enjoying it and it's changing my mindset, but I'd be scared to share my epiphanies on fb because I know everybody would cringe as they carried on working 55 hour weeks, pitying me for being broke, believing that I'm finding ideologies to comfort me for being 'poor' when I have enough thanks.

OP - you need to look at yourself to see why you're getting so eggy. This points at deficiencies in your own life.

Why do you care when you can hide her with one click?

Ugh can't stand all this.

DH invited an old friend to stay with us recently who went on and on about all sorts of shit trying to convert us - cow's milk dangerous, need to use oat milk - more than one coffee a day is a cancer risk - microwave should be chucked in the skip - sausages are the devil - sugar is like crack cocaine and they'll be warnings on packets in the future, like cigarettes - a mutual friend of ours is wasting his life 'on the corporate treadmill' when he should be working as little as possible and enjoying life - he couldn't quite explain how that enjoyment of life would be funded. Tool.

I ended up hiding in the spare room with a bottle of red and mumsnet.

It doesn't point at deficiancies in her own life...it points at her mate being a self-congratulatory pain in the arse. When people have these sort of 'epiphanies' they sometimes become incredibly smug and pushy with it. ANNOYING!

She's a Facebook bore. Most of us have one or more of these on our news feed. Unfollow her!

But the metal vibrating bowls do sound nice ppeat😁
And Costa fortune I'm sure!
I can't imagine actually taking a weekend course😶

Yes Plinky I wouldn't mind so much if the person is actually a sweet, centred person in real life!

I have recently had an epiphany of my own...new hobby, new diet, new lifestyle. I don't go on about it because no one cares but me. My friends see my weight loss and compliment me and I say thank you. End of topic.

I agree nutrogena

I get upset seeing big groups of people socialising on fb because that is what's missing from my life that I would like more of. But envy isn't necessarily bad as it tells you what area of your life to focus on.

I roll my eyes when I see pictures of my friends in their wedding dresses saying 16 years married! Like being married and normal and having somebody to rely on was hard and obviously the reason that pisses me off is because being single and independent is never celebrated as an achievement. You'd come off nuts if you said ''a decade single! whoah, rejected losers, wouldn't settle for mediocres, here I am! single as the day I was born!''. I'm laughing at my own jokes here as I type so I'm not too wounded but honestly I just hide people now if they're too smug.

I'd hate to be smug and enlightened.

Are you sure she's not mixed up in a MLM (Forever Living maybe?) as they spout all sorts of bollocks like this.

I've got quite a few dandelion lovers on my fb feed. I'm never quite sure who's meant to stack the shelves, stitch the yoga pants and froth the lattes so that the rest of us can 'do only what truly inspires us'.

Is it the Dali Lama?