This has me thinking...
My thoughts lie with the question of when if ever is quantity better than quality? How about when one is with futile effort attempting making up for lost time and lost posts.
Sometimes I feel that if I do not document what I am feeling at a particular time, that feeling will be lost to me, as if setting in motion a terrible and irreversible course of events, the day in question will slowly but surely start to fade and then inevitably its memory will be gone forever. For none other than this selfabsorbed and rather selfish reason I have started to carry a notebook around with me. This rings quite similar to when I first began to carry the samsung nv3 around with me just in case I saw something I wanted to capture. Then one evening when walking alone along this little path somewhere where I had never been before I saw this beautiful scene unfold in front of me and I instinctively rummaged for the camera only to stop just before I positioned the viewfinder in in front of my eye.
How selfish of me to only consider something like this as on a need to capture basis! If it is good, take it, if it is not, then keep on walking. I had become completely incapable at appreciating something that wasn't pleasing to the eye. And even worse I had forgotten to just stop and stare.
3 comments:
I realized it is impossible to capture the moment. You can never describe it with words, as words are mere approximations of reality. You can never relive it, as each moment has different dimension to it (time, place, and millions of conditions and emotions). Pictures are great at capturing the space component which explains why we react differently to that same picture in different circumstances.
So we must live each moment to its full potential as memories will fade.
Dahabow, A Happy New Year to you.
I still read your blog, and love it, anonymously lol (cigaal)
Fx: I understand where you're coming from but it is not for the need to capture the moment, but more like a souvenir of the times so one may be able to retain a memory of yourself and it. Words I find are even better than pictures, its true that a picture says a thousand words but those words alter with each time you look at the picture and an image will not tell you how you felt when you took it. Whereas each sentence you write about an experience will say the same thing when you read it today and again in ten years
Cigaal: My intellectual comrade! I long to read some of your posts but I don't know where you buggered off to when you deserted us... Be a sport and tell us your whereabouts promptly, I'll have none of this anonymous business!
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