They say money can't buy happiness and a privileged guy on Twitter has proved it with an epic 35-part thread rant on the microblogging site.?
This guy by the name of Qiaochu Yuan took to Twitter to rant about how he resents his mother for spoiling him and gifting him $100,000(Rs 74 lakh) on his birthday.?
He started off by telling everyone how he?took a 'medium dose' of LSD and realised that he was, in his own words, spoiled, and he didn't like it.?He recounted how his mother gave him the large sum of money for his birthday, adding: "I resented her for this and also suppressed the resentment."
He goes by the handle name 'Magnificent Adult Baby' and wrote about how he found himself at a dead end after moving out of a shared house and feeling like he didn't belong and temporarily moved into a holiday home.
He said: "Towards the end of my stay I decided to take a medium dose of acid to see if it could get me unstuck on stuff and hoo boy.
"I wrote for maybe 12 hours straight and it eventually turned into a sort of spontaneous dialogue between the person I am on acid and the person I am sober; acidQC and soberQC.
He kept going on saying how his 'acidQC told him things he doesn't really want to acknowledge and said that he has been feeling pressure to feel like he has financial health when his parents do is give him money whenever he needs it.
He said, "You feel like you were told by society that the way making a living works is that you do labour and are paid a fair wage for your labour and that's how you earn the right to exist and be a member of society, you feel guilty because you've never done this.?But that's just not true, you actually do not need to earn the right to exist and you never have. The reason you're alive right now and not starving to death on the street even though you haven't had a job in three years is because your parents send you money because they love you."
He even compared himself to Harry Potter.?
In other posts, Yuan explained his parents had already given him over ?128,121 ($175,000) for education and living expenses, including his entire tuition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He said they did this because "they wanted me to have a good education and a good life", and added that he was "very spoiled, and in retrospect, it wasn¡¯t good for me."
He went and said that his parents never made him do household chores and when his friends said they didn't have the budget to get or do something he never really got it.?
There were mixed responses from everyone who read his thread. while some showed compassion, others criticised him.?
However, Yuan did say that he got DMs from strangers who thanked him for talking about this money situation.?