*Originally written 06/03/2019*
Why do we write things down?
Why, to record of course.
To remember.
That's why we take pictures.
To remember.
But isn't that what our brains are for?
To remember things?
Photos capture,
Writings record,
Both seize a moment,
An experience
In our lives.
But why do we do that,
When we can just live it on our own?
Why, to help of course.
But I do believe
That this
We have taken,
This trajectory
We are on,
Going down is a bad one.
An abusive one,
An addiction,
An overuse of our capturing tools and instruments.
Making us,
Causing us to lose contact with the moment we are in.
Causing us to
Lose track of
Time-
Looking down and reading.
Looking at your phone and searching
Through
Thousands of photos
That have been taken.
Wanting so badly to capture a moment in time
that you lose the moment due to the yearning to capture it.
The yearning to
Record it.
What is life then,
But a collection of experiences.
Which are all being thwarted by
our inability,
Our addiction to capture it.
So how then can we fully experience a moment?
How then do we live in the moment without it
Slipping away?
Is to remember to terrorize?
What is memorization to Theatre?
Memorizing lines only for a couple nights of performance,
And then?
That's The End.
So, then,
What is this great show later on in our lives
Which we are memorizing,
Capturing, recording and preparing for?
Because sometimes
This seems like a chore.
To capture
(To) Take,
(To) Trap, a moment.
What great, grand show are we preparing for?
To what end do we distill,
Infect,
Dirty,
All of these moments, experiences that are so pretty?
My only answer
That i could possibly procure here is
Fear.
Fear is the answer behind why we fly through life.
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