been thinking abt the human urge to share lately & where it comes from. I’ve noticed that sometimes, when I experience a moment, im so caught up in trying to memorize every detail or thinking about how im going to tell my friends about it later or imagining my instagram post on it, that its almost like im not even present in the moment and already living in the future. this effect is so exaggerated that sometimes, I feel almost as if an event didn’t even happen if there was nobody who lived through it with me, or who I told about it after. almost as if that other ghostly presence is “proof”- “if a tree falls in a forest and theres nobody around, does it really truly fall?” My answer is yes, in a physical reality sense— but not in anyone’s reality, so does it matter? I don’t think so. Anyway, we kind of got off topic. I’mnot sure if this is a result of social media, or if its an intrinsic human craving for connection. i deleted instagram for a day (to test it out) , with the goal of reconnecting with myself and the people around me- but i noticed the opposite effect, somehow, I felt almost “isolated” from the world, despite technically being more present than I was before. our sense of connection to the people around us used to come from the real world, but I would argue that now, it is mostly the digital one. im not sure if this is good or bad, or if it can even be classified as such rather than a neutral fact about the state of the world today— but sometimes, when im sitting at my family dinner table and everyone is glued to a different device, or when i ride the train and see everyone on their phones, completely isolated from one another and entranced in a different world through the screen, I feel nostalgic for a world where everyone was present in the same reality- a world that didn’t rely on digital media for connection, even though it’s a world I was never truly familiar with. anyway, let me know ur thoughts on this.