It is a rainy morning this morning and it appears that it will be a rainy weekend as I spend the next three days with my youngest grandchildren in their home. Here, the first two hours of the morning belong to me as everyone is still sleeping. I finally have the ambition to sit still and do some writing. Taking this time to talk with you became my first priority. I have been delaying this post until the conditions were ripe for its creation.
Looking at old photos in my journals before Covid19, took me back in time to think about how much the world has changed. My guess is that it isn’t only the world that has changed. Each of us is not the same person we were before the pandemic no matter how much we would protest. Social media has had a lot to do with this though can social media be considered the main reason for how the world has changed.
As naturists or nudists or just as people who prefer to not wear clothing when we can get away with it, time seems to have done one of two things – shoved us deeper into closets where we sneak moments of nudity; or, we have pushed the edges of our own boundaries to search out more and more freedom. Personally, I take more chances with when and where I allow my clothing to fall off.
Yet still, I remain well aware that there are times and places where going nude is not going to do me any good at all. There is a real world out there and it isn’t going to let us get away with total freedom of expression. So, that has us, as a collective, build virtual communities on Twitter and a few other scarce social media platforms.
Nudity, virtual social nudity, is an act of personal freedom that should be celebrated with others who are supportive. Hiding in the closet, fearful of being found while nude doesn’t have to be one’s condition. Owning one’s natural body is not a capital crime. Take some time and discover the joy and freedom that being clothing free can offer you.
Just a note: You don’t have to show pictures of yourself to enjoy that freedom. Leave the camera behind and just experience. That is enough … at least for now.