> I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that
You just missed taking pictures. You were still there to live them :)
You just missed taking pictures. You were still there to live them :)
「カメラを向けるのではなく、この空間をご自分の目で見て、体で感じてください。そして、思い出は心の中に大切にしまって持ち帰って欲しい、これが私達の願いです。」
Which translates fairly literally to:
"Rather than aiming your camera, please see this space with your own eyes and feel it with your body. We hope that you carefully store these memories in your heart and take them home with you."
Your brain can use pictures as triggers later in life to reconnect a lot of those memories that get fuzzier over time.
Taking a video of a whole concert? Obnoxious and rude to the other members.
But I’ll take around 5 photos here and there and later on I’m glad I can go back and see them.
So it’s like, hey, phone/camera doesn’t work? Put it down then. You’ll remember what your toddler looks like because you’ve got other pictures.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21298470
We probably feel the need to preserve/hoard everything in a subconscious desire for immortality.
For example, I can go a whole vacation without taking any pictures. But with my kids I love to take their picture and get videos because they grow up so fast and it's fun now to go back and revisit a time when they were younger. They also love to see themselves when they were an age that they don't remember.
The human brain is way better at remembering where to find information than remembering information itself.