Good morning, SuperForest!
A few days ago, I shared with you a story titled “The Egg“. It was short, but wildly thought-provoking, and upon reading it I knew I had to share it here on SuperForest. A few nights ago, I came across an article by Jack Shedd titled “Pictures“. The feeling I got upon reading it was almost identical to what I felt after reading “The Egg”. And though I feel identifying it as a “SuperForesty” read might be a bit of a stretch, there is no doubt it is an incredible piece of writing that makes you pause and reflect upon the societal standards by which we have become accustomed to. It makes you take a closer look at social media and ask yourself where you stand upon the issue. And now that I think of it, maybe it is pretty SuperForesty.
Again, give it a read, reflect upon it, and decide for yourself.
Here is an excerpt:
My generation is living online. Our lives being documented in ever more disparate venues; our devices capturing every inane moment, sharing it, pushing it out and notifying everyone of what just happened, who was there, where it was. When romantic comedies are written about the next decade, endearing scenes of a hero’s family sharing his misadventures with the romantic interest will soon take place huddled around the mother’s Facebook account.
I’ve never had the stomach for it.
I don’t think we capture the right moments. The camera flashes and we pose. Wepose. We create moments as artificial as the memory we want of them. We stare into lenses and lie, if only a little, so that the record shows we were there, enjoying or not enjoying ourselves, in precisely the way we’d prefer it.
But the perfect moments always allude us. The moments when we get the joke; when we decide; when we falter; the moments right before we succeed, right before we fail, before we’re sure. You can’t capture what you don’t expect, and so many of the things we should cherish are precisely the things we wouldn’t want a camera to see.
You can find the rest of “Pictures” by clicking here.
Love always,
Carla
(via the big contrarian)
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