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When documenting life replaces living it

My mother is dying and I keep taking photos of her instead of just being with her because I am terrified I will forget and also terrified I am missing the actual moments by documenting them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to capture and preserve experience can become a barrier to actually experiencing what you fear losing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Technology and human identity — who are we with our tools??”

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