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When memory-keeping interferes with experience

I deleted photos from my phone to make space and now I can't remember what I did last summer and I feel like I'm losing my own life by not documenting it but documenting it stops me from living it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to capture and preserve experiences can paradoxically diminish full presence in those experiences.

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