My cousin is a “wannabe” photographer. He does a great job at taking pictures and most importantly, enjoys the minutes he spends doing it.
He took the following pictures in our last trip to the city. I was not aware he was taking them. According to Mr. Tornato-Alcántara, the best photographs are those in where people are actually not aware that someone is taking a picture of them—I agree.
However, the main point I want to make with these pictures is that in them, I am constantly looking down. In fact, I was looking at my phone, texting, facebook-ing, on Twitter...so on.
As more people get into the blackberry mode, the cities are filled with individuals looking down, stumbling into each other as they walk; connected to the globe through a phone, but forgetting of the actual world in front of them.
Are we too busy explaining what we are doing to others through media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, and text messages that we no longer care to actually admire what is in front of us?
We have become people who walk: connected to the globe through a phone; People who stumble; People who forget.
Let’s live life minute by minute and enjoy the daily walks.
Just thinking...
3 comments:
you have a nice blog
and i love the domain name
''minute by minute''.
p.s thank you so much for dropping by my site
and for the sincere comment. i hope to see you again here.
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First, thank you for the kind words on my blog. It was such a horrible week and it really made me feel better to have people be so nice to me!
Second, I have so much to say on your blog topic, I don't even know where to begin! Lol. You are absolutely right. I truly feel like our generation (and especially those younger than us) are losing face-to-face personal relationships. We are so obsessed with texting and twittering and facebooking that actually talking to someone in person has become a rarity.
I think it is doing a huge disservice to communication skills.
Of course, I'm guilty of doing everything I just mentioned, but at least I haven't lost my ability to talk to people in person. Obviously you haven't either.
And I also agree that when we're so obsessed with our phones, we don't look up and notice the world around us. Perhaps that will make people lose their creativity? I hope not. Plus, it seems dangerous, walking around staring down at a phone. You could smack into someone or walk off a cliff. (Hehe).
You're so right...
I went to a movie recently and even though everyone had someone there with them, before the movie began, no one was speaking to each other. They were all playing games/texting someone else.
It was so weird to see.
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