You don’t have to fake a smile in every photo. Real days include cloudy ones.

Keeping a permanent good face going is more work than it looks, and it slowly makes your actual days feel like a failure to match the record of them. Nobody sets out to build that gap. It assembles itself one ordinary picture at a time, until a flat Tuesday starts to feel like something has gone wrong with you.

Let one thing this week go out unedited, or do not post it at all. Either works. What matters is keeping some part of your life that is not being kept presentable, because a life with no unphotographed hours gets tiring fast.