> I looked up and saw this one spot where the sun rays made a kind of painting on the kitchen wall. And it flickered now and then as light moved through the leaves.
At that moment, did you not feel like taking your phone to take a photo?
My family was on a trip in Alaska a month ago, and I intentionally did NOT grab my phone to take pics many times. For example, there were multiple times we were on a train, someone would yell "moose!!!", and by the time people grabbed their phones the moose was 500yards behind us. They didn't get the pic OR the memory. There were people muttering "damn, missed it AGAIN..."
Also, everyone in my family WAS taking pics and sending to a shared album, so I knew I would get 6 pics of the same thing from slightly different angles regardless. Slightly cheating, but whatever.
Basically, I have chosen to be very deliberate with what I take, and I find that I'm able to focus more on the immediate experience rather than worrying about framing and zooming, and what I DO take typically isn't garbage.
Once you have the concept down of not doing anything to further itself but merely existing in the time and place, which is called reflection, you can expand (not travel) to contemplation, a different experience.
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> I looked up and saw this one spot where the sun rays made a kind of painting on the kitchen wall. And it flickered now and then as light moved through the leaves.
At that moment, did you not feel like taking your phone to take a photo?
My family was on a trip in Alaska a month ago, and I intentionally did NOT grab my phone to take pics many times. For example, there were multiple times we were on a train, someone would yell "moose!!!", and by the time people grabbed their phones the moose was 500yards behind us. They didn't get the pic OR the memory. There were people muttering "damn, missed it AGAIN..."
Also, everyone in my family WAS taking pics and sending to a shared album, so I knew I would get 6 pics of the same thing from slightly different angles regardless. Slightly cheating, but whatever.
Basically, I have chosen to be very deliberate with what I take, and I find that I'm able to focus more on the immediate experience rather than worrying about framing and zooming, and what I DO take typically isn't garbage.
He includes a photo :)
a 100% :)
As someone who was a teen around the advent of smartphones, I'm only just now learning how important it is to unplug. It's wonderful, give it a try.
Once you have the concept down of not doing anything to further itself but merely existing in the time and place, which is called reflection, you can expand (not travel) to contemplation, a different experience.
No screens on Sundays, works for me.