Just one click to stop time

The thought of the photographer is so intense that one wonders why keep beauty in the past with a photograph?

“Sometimes I do not. If I like it then, I’ll see it in person. I do not like interference. So I stay in the moment. (…) Yes, there”.

This is a good metaphor for thinking about the time we spend every day behind an imaginary camera looking for our “perfect shot” and so while we take our pictures … the intensity of it flies away, like the “the moment”.

We need to stop to observe, to listen, to feel emotions and to experience life.

As Morgan Freeman once said: “It’s what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That’s all and that’s the hardest thing”

We are like tuning forks in continuous vibration, but unfortunately we release what others expect of us more than often, rather than our soul. Sean Penn in this scene from the film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, observes, he lives the moment, and plunges himself into the unique experience of running after a ball with a Mongolian tribe.

There is no doubt that living life is like “taking photos” to keep “beauty” for posterity, but it is also about clearing cameras away and immersing oneself in the “real” reality. Any advice for doing that? I’m trying:

• a day without a my mobile
• a day without Facebook
• a day without internet

When I feel an irresistible urge to use all these things so that I don’t feel left out of the world, I think of a Dustin Hoffman’s phrase:
“We spend most of our lives worrying about what others think of us, until we discover that the purpose of life is not to care.”

“… and in case I don’t see ya…

good afternoon, good evening and good night!”…

(The Truman Show)

Virginio