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How documenting life replaces living it

I realized I take photos of everything I do instead of actually experiencing it and now my camera roll is full but my memories feel empty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The impulse to capture experience can prevent the very experience from being fully received.

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“Where Are You with Attention and its relationship to time?”

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