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Capturing Frenzy
Friday, June 04, 2010

(Written on January 7, 2009)

Slow down, take a breather, stop and smell the roses, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, dream, you don’t have to do everything, there’s not enough time in the day, white picket fence life, couldn’t we just freeze time for a nap and wake up to continue what needs to be done… always running around trying to get too much done, have we lost sight of what’s really important, have we lost touch of the moments we work so hard to experience, have the moments to live for been left unnoticed?

Do we walk by the roses? Or do we take a moment, even just a blinking second to notice the color of the petals, how soft they feel and how they smell? Perhaps we do take that moment to pause and smell the roses. Cameras are on every wall, zoomed in on every face and tucked in every corner, bag and pocket. With new technology and devices all the time a picture or video is bound to be taken most anywhere and in any situation. We’re all in tied up in a frenzy to capture, anything. But is it really anything or the moments that we grow from, the moments that catch our attention, the people we spend time with or have only just met but later seem to see all the time or never see again. How much can one be affected by a brief moment of acquaintance. Perhaps it’s in the rush to capture, the need to get the picture and have it come out just right or sometimes even better so not what one had in mind that is us pausing and taking that moment to stop and smell the roses. That we are taking pictures of the moments that we strive for, the ones that are important and that we want to always remember. Perhaps, it is just these moments that we choose to excessively (as the spreading of digital allows) capture that are the roses; that we have replaced the mental image with the physical image to have to trigger the mental memory that’ll bring the atmosphere of the moment back to life. Perhaps it’s taking the picture physically that is us taking a moment of realization and gratitude. Of realizing what we have, what moment we are in and that we are glad to be in it. Perhaps, … at least subconsciously…