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In the hustle of life, we often forget about honoring our days and celebrating the milestones that define our journey. This year, as my husband, Gary, and I reached a monumental 35 years together, we were caught in a swirl of activity, missing the moment to honor this significant anniversary. Admittedly, while we honor our days with creative productivity and reflection, we haven’t always paused to celebrate the milestones that mark our lives. Now, we’re recognizing the importance of acknowledging and appreciating how far we’ve come and thinking about the future we want to create. How are you at honoring your days and celebrating your milestones? Learn more. Take a few minutes to read the full blog essay, HONORING OUR DAYS, CELEBRATING THE MILESTONES, at Mundancing -- link in bio.

Technology was created to enhance our life and enjoy it. Why do people care so much about capturing a video of the Arc de Triomphe lighting up in a million colors and posting it on social media? Why do they prefer this over putting their phones away and cheer, hug, kiss and laugh with their friends/family? Imagine the following conversation: - Gustav: "so where did you spend NYE?" - Gregoire: "at Champs Elysées, it was awesome man, so many people, lights, colors, fireworks. Here... look at this video I capture" (... shows video) -Gustav: "that's fantastic. Who did you get to kiss or at least hug?" ** awkward silence ** -Gregoire: "... but look at the lights, breathtaking!!!" ** awkward silence ** It's genuinely sad to see this plethora of people putting social media front and center in their lives, rather than living the moment and sharing it with their loved ones. (PS: I made up the names, no reference to an actual person is being made...)

I'm not the biggest fan of radical self-restraint. But long ago, I promised myself I would never again take videos or photos of fireworks unless my job required it. Unless you're managing a fireworks supplier or you have a report to write. The best thing you can do is shut off your phone for a second, shove it in your pocket, hug the person next to you tightly, and enjoy the damn show. Nowadays, pretty much all severe fireworks are artistic endeavors. It's not just random lights in the sky. It is a serious director's work, with specially written music and marvelous accompaniment with lights, lasers, drones, and other special effects. Try, at least once in your life, to immerse yourself in this fairy tale, to understand the story, to feel what emotions were trying to convey a team of specialists who literally risk their lives creating pictures out of gunpowder. And let's be honest, you'll never watch these videos again, they'll just drown in the dust of the library of your phone, taking up space there.  Leave filming to the experts and enjoy the damn show.

I like to look at things from a different lens’s are most know. For me technology brings people together, I record, my best friends record every moment of our interactions or when they see something cool because I suffered trauma/stress to my brain causing short term memory loss and my brain doesn’t connect feeling to memory. That’s why we take pictures and videos. People aren’t always able to be present for moments like the new years, their in hospital or going through something dark and that person experiencing the video/photo moments thinks of them in that moment. That’s why we take pictures and videos. Someone has social anxiety or has disabilities that prevents them from seeing it for themselves. That’s why we take videos. It’s not sad that we are so consumed with our phones, it’s sad that we get bashed and ashamed, like sending a message with a fat bird was more efficient, better and useful. We miss moments because we‘re too busy judging other people on how they chose to be in the moment and live their life, it’s not technologies fault.

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