[cheradenine_uk]

I see this a lot, and I'm put in mind of the Dawkins quote (to paraphrase)

"Nobody preaches about the sun coming up tomorrow. Nobody preaches about certainties. Believers preach about their world view not because they are certain, but because they are UNcertain"

I.E: What people like this are trying to do isn't convince you - it's to convince themselves.

If you choose another path, be it in work, decision to start or not start a family, from the mainstream you get pushback in many forms, because it's very hard for people to not want the choices that they make to be the _correct_ choices, and that must mean the _correct_ choices apply to everyone, right? We can all get trapped on the hedonic treadmill together!

There's a bit of this in the WFH/Office debate, too.

Best advice I ever got: If you want to be happier, get poorer friends.