Believe It Or Not, You're Allowed to Dodge Social Media on Your Birthday
Everything will work again if you unplug it for a while. Including YOU.
Something I’ve never understood is when people post a Facebook selfie with a caption like, “So…this is 40.” Insert 30, 50, or 60 if you like, but I’ve always wondered what kind of responses or validation stamps they’re expecting.
Since when does a birthday selfie or any selfie require the approval of the internet? Selfies in general are just weird. We already know what you looked like at 39. Trust me, it doesn’t change the morning you turn 40.
In the true spirit of searching for Wildhood, you know what’s really wild? Going missing on your birthday. Signing off the almighty internet and finding yourself somewhere where the word ‘approval’ doesn’t exist.
On my 50th birthday, I staged a photo shoot all by myself in front of nobody but my dog and a tripod. I was in the middle of the woods in the Canadian Rockies with no internet service, no phone signal, and no notion of who I could share my personal moment with.
The photo shoot ended up producing one of the most delightful pictures I’ve ever taken of myself and to this day, it has never seen the light of social media.
Right here, right now is the first time I’m posting it anywhere. Talk about bathtub goals, right?
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