You experience things through your phone, not directly

Let us look gently at this, for it turns on a small paradox. The capture is a way of not-quite-arriving — reaching for the camera opens a distance, so you become the one recording the sunset rather than the one seeing it, a pane of glass sliding between you and the thing; the instinct feels like devotion but quietly removes you from what you meant to honor, trading the thing for a token of it. The recording you take is rarely the thing you wanted — you keep the photo you will scarcely open and lose the sunset you could have watched, and a jar of river water is not the river; the capture replaces the moment instead of preserving it, leaving you the token and not the treasure. And let some moments pass uncaptured, and simply be in them — not renouncing the camera, but sometimes deliberately not reaching, letting the moment be lived and released, for a thing fully experienced and let go is more yours than a thousand recordings; the moment lives in the being-there, not the archive. What is something you reached to capture lately instead of simply being in?