This afternoon I sat at “Miradouro de Santa Luzia”, which is a beautiful plaza that overlooks Lisbon and the river. I found a shady patch and let myself soak up the view. And I managed to get some “people watching” in.

I noticed that most people would arrive at the viewpoint, look briefly and then whip out their phones and snap pics… of the view, their travel buddies and themselves.

And then they would rapidly move on.

I recon that most people didn´t spend more than 15seconds looking at the view, despite being there for around 5min on average.

And those pictures will look nice, but you can probably get better ones off google anyway

I´ve noticed this at concerts too. People will spend entire songs watching the concert through their screens.

And those videos will probably never be watched

Capturing the moment

I love taking pictures… they capture a moment that you can remenisce over later.

The problem is if you spend the time only taking photos, you don´t actually get to be in that moment at all.

What I like to do is take one or two pictures, usually with me in them. And then I´ll put my phone away and sit in the moment.

Experience it

Be mindful of it

So by all means, we can capture the moments on our phone

But try not to let your phones capture you.

Image was taken at Miradouro de Santa Luzia 🙂  pretty isn´t it?

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