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How constant photo-taking prevents us from living

I take photos of everything we do together instead of just experiencing it and later when I look at the photos I cannot remember how I actually felt in those moments.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The compulsion to document experience can paradoxically prevent us from having the experience at all.

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