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Why documenting desert solitude defeats its purpose

I go hiking in the desert to escape my phone but I keep taking pictures to prove I was present instead of just being present.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The impulse to capture experience for others can prevent us from fully inhabiting it ourselves.

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