Day 3

On Day 2: entertaining the possibility of moving to Alpharetta, GA.
Day 3: Still pondering.

*Stalking celebrity IG accounts is surely not good for the tech diet but how fascinating...

day one: #mrmrspaul

Day One of the Technology Diet is/was successful with the exception of an hour's long fangirling over Aaron Paul and his (Alanis-voice) bee-u-tiful wife (isn't it ironic... no it's not). Looking at their lives (holy crap they're rich, had to cut myself off when my ipod died but got far enough back into IG history to see her engagement ring the size of a literal dime) was quite the contrast to my other current distraction, Tina Fey's memoir Bossypants. After a decidedly serious and depressing weekend, I needed some humor and sunshine in my life. Tina's (feels way more normal to call her by her first name) book actually feels like it was written by a "regular" woman, exposing the glamour of celebrity to reality. Surprise! They're humans after all! Which, weirdly enough, was what I was ultimately thinking about #MrMrsPaul. Despite all the glitz and unbelievable beauty (of their faces), they really are just human people living human life which is repetitive and normal most of the time. People live lives on different levels but ultimately life looks the same whether your diamonds are big or small or non-existent. Everyone eats, loves, sleeps, gets sick, goes to work, has good days, has bad days, laughs, cries and dies at the end of the story. So, instead of looking at these celebrity lives (or IG projections of a life) and envying them, I thought: "I already have that." I'm alive and money doesn't matter, so really nothing separates me from them. Not to mention, if I spent so much time and effort into making my life look so glamorous, who knows what kind of celebrity I could appear to be in my own right. This whole tech diet is an effort to get away from comparison, but today I found a beautiful truth in comparing myself to someone very different from me: we're all the damn same.