Selfies

Selfies have always amuzed me. As one integrated into a life of social media, they are seen frequently. Whether it is showing off fashion, where we are, what we are consuming, what we are desiring to be, the selfie attempts to capture that moment. People call them harmless and funny. I have seen this trend trickle into all aspects of the web and even in personal, real-life conversation. It's as if people need other people to know what they are doing, a way to personify "self." Ironic isn't it, that I use a blog to share this thought when that is in the same line of what I'm trying to articulate as speculative. Are we really starved for attention? 

What is unnerving, and I have been a culprit in which I will admit to you now, is how we can post certain things that we just think other people want to and have to see! Do you want to see what coffee I drank this morning and how I made it? Thought so. Did you want to see the book I'm reading, or rather the book I want you to think I'm reading? Absolutely. Did you want to see how awesome I plated my meal today just so I could take a "foodie," a thing in which I never do unless I'm going to take a photo of it to share? Of course you did.

You see what I want you to see. You see the "me" I wish I was, and for a short time and a click I can capture. It's hard to be present anymore. To enjoy life for simply life, to be in the moment (have you ever been having a great moment, whipped out your phone to "capture" the moment just to understand that it has passed?). 

False humility. Trying to be perceived as humble when the flip side is getting noticed or being considered notable. Forgive me for this. 

These thoughts flow as an observation to a lenten practice this year, using my phone as a phone. Shocking right? When I arrive at home, my phone has a nice little bowl it stays in, only answered when it rings, like a phone. It has revealed my ridiculous dependency on "staying busy," not productive, but busy. It's an observation, please feel free to add your own.