Out of all the worthy resolutions floating around in my head, there’s only one I really plan to stick to.
In 2014 I’m going to stop lying on Facebook.
Don’t get me wrong. I haven’t navigated my way through 2013 fabricating events for the sake of social media. I haven’t, oh I don’t know, say, pretended to know sign language and made shit up during the funeral of one of the greatest men that ever lived. What. The. What?
But what I have done plenty of times – in fact more often than not – is lied by omission. I’ve habitually curated my life on social media so that it played more like a Greatest Hits album, a highlights reel chock full of ponies and rainbows and Brady Bunch moments.
So my status updates have been like this:
Look at us out to dinner!
Here I am with my children baking!
Here’s a great review of my book!
Here I am with my children baking!
Martini, anyone?
Best husband in the world!
Baking! With children! Still super happy!
Happy! Happy! Happy!
And while all those moments were bonafide, they don’t tell the full story. Because like you and every other SINGLE PERSON ON THIS PLANET (except maybe Beyonce) I’ve also had down days. I’ve stuffed up. Screwed up. Been fed up. I’ve had disappointments and blah moments and had things blow up in my face big time.
But you wouldn’t know it.