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In what world are we living, where instead of being present in our environment, we are looking at ourselves through our phone screens? Yesterday, I saw an amazing sunset in its different stages: peaking through the clouds, reflecting in the water and creating a golden path, and then fading into a soft afterglow. I realized that the rest of the people were too busy taking pictures to show that they were there, but were not actually there, not present to appreciate what was in front of them.

I can't really say that I'm very different from them; in the past, I was probably one of them. However, it's not a lifestyle that I want to follow. The more you look and the more you experience, the less you want to be sucked into your devices. There is so much life out there.

The purpose of taking pictures is to preserve a memory, but nowadays, I wonder if it’s serving its purpose if no actual memory was created...