Live in the Moment
Let's take a quick look at society today. Everyone carries around a smartphone everywhere they go, ready to snap a picture at any given moment. There's even this idea that if you don't take pictures and post them to some form of social media, did you really even go? However, what's the point of this? It turns people into narcissistic "image-junkies." It makes us feel like we're connected to the rest of the world, when actually, photos make us detached from society. When people take pictures to post from their trips, they most likely alter the photographs to make them seem more beautiful - to make people more jealous. Photographs don't tell the whole story, thus making it difficult to further our knowledge of the world. I myself have over 2,000 photos just sitting in my camera roll. But why? To look back and evoke memories from the past? Or to post throwback pictures on Instagram and make people wish they were me? Most likely the latter; looking back at...