Revenge can be all-consuming and ridiculously unhealthy, but it can also be a great motivator.
I'm not saying that doctors discovered insulin or penicillin out of a desire to show their exes what they were missing out on, but many folks out there have turned their lives around and gotten their acts together over a breakup-based wake-up call.
Megan used revenge as a motivator to start something cool that has become much bigger and more important, and moved far beyond the pettiness that launched it.
The posts, she says, are all about making her exes jealous.
Let's face it, that would have to get chilly, but when she does, she's sure to post a pic of herself taking in the scenery while providing some as well to her Instagram following.
It started on a momentous trip with her sister.
The pair made a two-week, 2,500 mile trip from Colorado to San Francisco, sleeping in tents and eating dehydrated food.
"I was really nervous before going, thinking about all the things that might go wrong," she told The Sun.
"But we had such a blast, and afterwards I felt a rush of pride and excitement at having completed something that before had been so nerve-racking."
The next year, she and her sister went back to Big Sur, where she decided to make a big splash in a liberating moment facing the ocean.
"I suppose I was searching for something," she says, "freedom or independence — and I wanted to do something cool enough to make my exes jealous."
And we love that for her.
So, naturally, she started taking more cheeky snaps of her jaunts into nature and sharing them with her followers.
"I tried for ages to build up some sort of a following on Instagram with wildlife and landscape pictures, then as soon as I start posting pictures of my butt, it just takes off."
Weird how that works, eh?
And as her following has grown, her journey has taken on much more meaning than merely getting back at her exes.
Which is awesome to hear!
"Of course, I know that it's an account full of bottom photos, but I feel that now I have such a following I should use that in a positive way to talk to people about important things."
Then, with the coast clear, she'll usually take the pic with a tripod, or get her sister to take the snap.
"I really enjoy the excitement of being out in the open air without any clothes on and the adrenaline of seeing what I can get away with. But it's not at all in a sexual or erotic way, as I know some people must assume."
Her parents are less supportive of her posts, however. "When I told them they seemed quite disappointed in me and since then we haven't talked about it."
"I'd be lying if I said that there wasn't a part of me that enjoyed the attention of it all," she says. "But it makes me feel equally good to think that I have a platform from which I can communicate with people. It just so happens to be the case that that is through pictures of my naked butt."
h/t The Sun
