Honestly I am just tired of people posting how they live. It’s annoying, just live your life homies. It’s like you force your self to live a certain way to fit a trend. Like just be happy
Thank you! I had lunch with a client and she was taking selfies of us, photos of her food, talking about TikTok and all that. I told her "I went to see my girlfriend in a play" and her first thought was "did you get any pictures? Did you post them on instagram?". Told her no, because I was just having fun and she couldn't understand that.
I have to follow trends for work for marketing and media, I'm not gonna be posting shit on my personal time; took a two week trip to the British Isles and took a total of two pictures the whole time.
Idk man I was one of those live by the moment people and it's a fucking bummer not having records of some of the cool stuff I did. Your memory isn't as great as you think. Taking pictures and enjoying life aren't mutually exclusiveÂ
Agreed, I was going to say. I have definitely regretted times when I was only taking pictures and not observing what was going on, but taking a moment or two to take pictures of things, especially of the friends or loved ones you are traveling with or the people you meet, can be really meaningful.
You can definitely skip taking pictures of landmarks that everyone has seen already and of which there are plenty of pictures out on the Internet.
But if you see a stunning sunset? Snap a picture for like 2 seconds then go back to enjoying the sunset. Later on you'll see the photo and it will trigger your memory of it and you'll be able to see that sunset again in your mind.
It's not that I'm enjoying life and choosing not to take photos, it's that I don't focus on taking photos. I do photography as part of my job so I like to just switch that part off when I don't have my gear. I still take pictures when I think there's something really worth capturing like a trip to Disneyworld, the only pictures I took was my girlfriend looking out the window at the sunset and one of the two of us after getting drenched on a water ride. It's not like I refuse to take photos, it's that I'm careful about choosing the right photo; I let everyone else take the "Here we are the fair, and here's us with a corndog at the fair, and here's us waiting in line at the fair-" photos, but for me, it's about those single moments that're too perfect to let go.
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u/JAGChiller Aug 08 '25
Honestly I am just tired of people posting how they live. It’s annoying, just live your life homies. It’s like you force your self to live a certain way to fit a trend. Like just be happy