Midterm...

While it may seem as though none of these pictures could possibly have anything in common, they actually do. They all required people to focus on getting the "instagram perfect" picture in favor of enjoying the moment. For the people who posted food pictures, how much of what they ate will they remember? Will they remember how the food tasted or will they remember the possible extreme lengths they had to go through to get that perfect angle? You know, standing on a chair or other object that will give them some added height and then standing at weird and almost dangerous ways on the chair to get that perfect picture. The nature focused pictures; did the view really look that great or did the person choose to take the picture of the specific side of the landscape because it looked the best. The pictures with the person being the focus on attention; how many tries did it take for them to get the perfect picture? How long did it take for think of those motivational words. Is the picture a genuine candid or is it a posed candid? How much of their time spent in that place will they actually remember if all they were focused on was getting a picture. I understand the want to take a picture when you go someplace cool. I used to be like that; I used to be that annoying person who wanted to snapchat everything I did every time I went out somewhere (which wasn't a lot because I don't get out as much as I may say I do). Any type of motivational thing is always pictures of people, places, and food. To be honest, I am not even quite sure how half of these things supposed to motivate me. I just look at these pictures and feel envious of the cool places these people are going. I wonder if we did that same experiment as that woman did and could see how much of their surroundings these people remembered. Probably not much because they were too busy posting, looking up motivational words, and getting the right angle. After seeing all these pictures, I am still very much in favor of being in the moment and absorbing what is happening and existing around you.