People who hate their life choices blame a stranger who made better ones

One couple spent years setting up their own independent businesses enjoy their mornings however they freely choose, namely drinking coffee together in their own garden, much to the chagrin of people who don’t have their own business, coffee, a garden or mornings.

“My husband and I wake up every morning and bring our coffee out to our garden and sit and talk for hours,” Mrs Beaton wrote on Twitter. “Every morning. It never gets old and we never run out of things to talk [about]. Love him so much.”

Of course, we now live in a world where being supportive of someone is only really a passive-aggressive form of social media warfare, where everything we do is catered to outdo the people we supposedly support in order to make us feel better about ourselves because we’re all just so wonderful like that.

Naturally that’s the exact response the Beatons received. At some point, people that so fundamentally hate their jobs or made terrible relationship choices decided that this couple were the ones to blame – and that they were deliberately lauding their successfully peaceful mornings in order to make people feel bad about themselves.

“How dare you talk about how you drink coffee in your garden while I have to drive to work!”

“What if you weren’t inherently wealthy and had to work?”

“Sounds like you and your husband need to get jobs.”

Perhaps if someone else’s happiness causes you to feel anything worse than indifference, you need to make immediate adjustments to your life rather than pinning your problems and decisions on people who know absolutely nothing about you – and crucially, who you know absolutely nothing about. No? Reload with a narcissism complex instead? Okay, round two:

“What was the purpose of this post other than to make me feel terrible about myself?”

“Who do you think you are enjoying your morning with your husband when I don’t have one and if I did I’d probably be on Twitter posting about how much I hate him anyway?”

Because social media sites like Twitter are pointless self-gratification vacuums, Susan, and anything the Beatons choose to tweet has absolutely nothing to do with you I can wholeheartedly assure you.

In a follow-up tweet shared on Saturday, Beaton nevertheless responded to some of the misconceptions about her life, where she clarified that she and her husband are not rich “by any means”.

“We’ve worked extremely hard to get to where we’re at,” she wrote. “We live very minimally and consciously & work jobs that match our lifestyle and allow us to live the life that we do.”

Isn’t it amazing how gratitude and a cup of coffee brings out the absolute worst in people.