I own one, single, solitary white dress. I have never worn said dress, possibly because I’ve never had a occasion in which a white dress was appropriate, but I have put it on shuffled around my tiny apartment at least seven times. “The” white dress turned two years old in July.
Everyone counts birthdays for inanimate objects, right?
So I’ve been putting on this damn white dress, wandering around, sitting on the couch with a napkin folded in my lap eating chips and salsa (I live dangerously), and never making plans to go out INTO THE WORLD and do something. That’s not OK.
No, it is not imperative for me to wear this dress in public to live my best life, but it does speak to the comfort that we can lull ourselves into once we hit a certain age.
Complacence.
It happens slowly and subtly. First with a weekend to “recharge” that eventually becomes a ritual. You begin finding ways to cancel plans and hoping your significant other is also as tired as you are so you can order takeout and not put on real pants. When you do go out, you feel the quota is satisfied and you’ve earned the right to Netflix and Chill yourself for the rest of the week.
There’s no shame in wanting to “recharge” but is this living? Singledom has forced me to rethink my current situation.
I have begun the process of living again and since I have begun the process of living again I have; met people, gone on adventures, and had brunch. Big stuff. The next thing? Wear this MF dress somewhere and dance my face off.
Oh, and a red bag is ESSENTIAL.
Dress: Victoria’s Secret clearance circa 2014
Bag: MK clearance from June (probably gone forever)
Very pretty!
White and I are enemies. Every time I wear white I manage to get it dirty or stains that won’t come out. Only white I wear these days are layering camis I wear underneath other tops.
Oh and that bag…, 😱😍
Yes, I have the same issue with white! I’m a dirt magnet! If the bag wasn’t so tiny I would carry it EVERYDAY!!! <3
I get so nervous when my boyfriend wears white because he is seriously the messiest eater I have ever met. He’s like a 5 year old kid. 😂
As most men are hahah 😉
Oh he’s awful. It’s almost hilarious.
Getting old is the worst. But I love the dress, you look gorgeous as usual. Here’s to leaving it all on the dance floor….and as we learned never wear it to a wedding.
Well if you will come to the Rose Gala next year you can wear the dress, dance like crazy and get out and enjoy being in your white dress! And by the way, how does one wear undergarments with a white dress?
Jim, I just may! And one wears invisible undergarments, of course!!! 🙂
It’s a symbol of your boldness and freedom. Kind of like how my couch potatoism is a symbol of my laziness. Congrats on going out and wearing it!
Yes! It’s a freedom dress!! Now I just need a blue accessory 😉 I love you for your couch potatoism. Don’t ever stop being a bitter, tv loving, blog master Ben because I will have nothing to read. #balance 🙂
I’ll always be there for you to have something to read while in your new white dress, or blue or whatever dress you want to wear!
Or in my yoga pants eating ice cream from the container because that is also part of living my best life haha 😉
I scream for ice cream too, but in my shorts instead of yoga pants because those would look silly on me. But that is living the best life for certain.
That’s a bit goregous…
Thank you!