Three days and two
nights. It was exactly the time that I spent in Zagreb. These bunch of
interactions and experiences made the time pass like in a fraction of second,
at the same time these moments are eternized in my memory.
In fact our
memories are the best souvenirs that we can get from trips and also from our
life moments. It's extremely more valuable than any picture, post card or any
souvenir gift that you can get from your trip.
Maybe like you,
I've been traveling spending most of the time trying to register every possible
moment by the camera of my phone. Most of the time I was worried about how I
could use these pictures to update my social medias: Facebook, Instagram and
even Snapchat.
These moments that
I spent taking pictures, involved in the social medias (posting, checking the
likes and replying the comments), I was also missing the time that I could
enjoy the place. I don't know how long I use to spend connected with my phone
while I was traveling, but these minutes, hours could make me see and analyze
better the places that I was traveling and having the chance to meet beautiful
people and give more attention to them.
This is not just
traveling. I've
wrote about social medias before. But now the point is that in our daily
life we are so connected with our phone living a virtual life that we don't
give time to ourselves to interact with our environment. We don't give
attention to who is around us, once we have enough distraction with our virtual
life.
Try one day to go
to a Park and just observe people around you. You don't need to bring anything
with you, just leave your phone at home. Few minutes without social medias
isn't going to kill you. Pay attention in the people that are moving around,
talking, smiling, crying, running... Stop and check the wind moving leafs
around. Observe the shadow of leafs making different shapes that you can see in
the floor. Just breathe deeply and look to the bright sky with clouds in animals’
shapes and try to look few seconds to the sun until your eyes starting to burn.
You're going to be
connected with the place and maybe you'll feel sociable to look in eyes people
while their looking at you, maybe you're going to exchange a smile and one
hello shaking heads. Who knows how possible is that you can just start a verbal
contact with someone. Someone that maybe was lonely and bored as you that
needed to check your phone for each 30s to see the comment of your friend in
your picture or the Instagram timeline to give some random likes or check what
your "friends" did last night.
Think how many
moments you would miss in this trip in the park for few minutes if you were
with your phone.
The physical and
emotion contact is what we are missing. A bunch of likes is never going to be
as strong as a simple hug. Talking with your friend by what's app is never going
to be the same as looking in his/her eyes, checking every details in his/her
face that is showing his/her emotions.
As in the life, while
you're traveling any picture that you'll take is never going to be the same as
your incredibly wide vision that see the colors perfectly. This moment that you
can feel the smell of the threes, feel the sun burning your body and fell the
wind touching your face.
Zagreb was like
this for me, my memories are eternized and I'm trying to always eternize the
moments. If I'm living the real life, giving more attention to people around than
my phone, I believe that I can be more alive and not dependent of a device with
some apps that are trying to control my mind and my life afterwards.
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