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Capturing The Moment: What Are We Losing?

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Capturing The Moment: What Are We Losing?

We have a lot of advanced technology these days that helps us relive any moment. What happens when those moments are lost in the midst of capturing them?

It has been said that this generation has become lost in their phones, social media and, "obssessed with sharing our personal lives." We have Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. These are just some of the popular apps that allow us to upload pictures, videos and share them with all 1,000 of our,"friends." I can confidently say that this is not just our doing. I see parents, grandparents and even younger generations posting everything and anything that happens around us, but why?

We like attention, and we like to brag. Parents love to show off how well their children are doing. Grandparents post about how they just visited old friends and let us know where they were doing so. Then comes us. We brag about almost everything, even if we don’t mean to. Some of us post about how in love we are, how successful we are or how young and wild we live. I am not saying this is a bad thing, but when does it reach a toxic level? 

If you take a moment and look around, you will see it. Posting becomes poisonous when you become more focused on posting, then what you are doing and where you actually are. You forget what you are doing when you take out your phone. We probably would not even remember what goes on and where we are, if it weren’t for the 400 pictures we have stored in our album. Weddings, family vacations, graduations and normal days are lost and our minds are taken over by our social standing.  Soon, it's not just a picture or a video, but the only memory you have of the event.

We stop feeling because the only thing we are thinking of is what everyone is going to comment on our pictures. Next thing you know, we are not even paying attention to anyone or anything going on. What are we doing? We are becoming our own version of zombies. We just live to capture our days and then soon our feelings are gone because we are no longer thinking or noticing what is happening. Our lives are flying by. Instead of really living it we are making sure we have a picture of it.

How much do those pictures really mean, anyway? They will probably be gone in a year or two, but the time lost in taking them and posting is gone forever. I am not telling you to drop your phones and not share with people the things and people that make you happy. I am saying that next time you are somewhere special, just stop and take it in. Even though a picture is worth a thousand words, it is not worth a lifetime.

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