Are we forgetting to Live the Moments ?

Visualize yourself being at a family function where your relatives and friends have all come together after a long time and maybe you might not meet them again anytime soon ; Or you are watching a cricket match live at stadium ; Or maybe you are just sitting around with your family at home playing cards in a calm evening ; or your are watching your brother's / sister's children play around.

What are you doing in all those situations ? Well its not hard to think a lot !! Like most people today, you are probably recording it with your smart phone or digital camera, or camcorder etc. You will also be sharing the moment with others across the web via websites like picasaweb, flickr and update your social networking sites like Facebook, Friendfeed, Twitter or Myspace or Orkut etc.

Lets say you are attending a friend/brother/sister wedding. Invariably everyone of us click a photo in mobile phones that have the camera and you will also find umpteen number of people with digital cameras or camcorders around too. Well, I had been to so many functions in the recent that I was definitely doing this all the time out of habit. :-)

Isn't it really great that without all this technology we would have had to remember every experience of our lives. Because of these gadgets, we can now share with anyone whatever we like instantly and keep them forever in media which can be stored for ages together to know about us and everyone around us. Tell anyone about the experience too.

Wait a second ! Did you notice what just happened ? Just contemplate about our lives in those moments, at the end of all of it we were just wasting all the time documenting and recording these moments and are infact forgetting to live that moment right there ! Yes, you are present there physically but, are you really present completely ? Did you live that moment ?

As this habit continues, we may be forgetting moments at least...how to actually live. And it is high time that all of us realize whether we like it or not sometimes we need to disconnect, put the camera / handycam down, and enjoy the moment for once.

Just think about it, your son is tying wedding knot..... or your child is taking the first steps..... or your mother is enjoying an icecream..... your father is having fun in the rollercoaster..... you record it at that instant watching the moment through a camera viewfinder rather than with your own eyes. Have you really seen it ? enjoyed the moment by yourself and with them ?

I felt its time to hold ourselves in this digital age and tell ourselves that "I will put my camera away sometimes, no matter how badly I want to record something, so I can live in the moment as it happens". Atleast I will never regret those times... because I am there in total from my heart and soul. Ofcourse it's easier said than done. But let us all try it !

"You may not have proof of everything you experienced in your amazing life, but that life might be a more fulfilling one in the end. You don't need to prove anything" Do you.......... ????