[etra0]

You have to realize, that some folks were born in the age of super-information and immediacy.

When I take a picture, I get the luxury of immediately see what I got. When I wanted to hear some music, I can search it up, and hear an entire album in a question of seconds.

It's an incredible privilege to do that, but at the same time, we got so used to speed, that pausing can be new for us.

This year I had the opportunity to travel to Europe and just sit in a café, sipping coffee, just observing, and it also felt new and different for me.

I shot with an analogue camera because I enjoy the feeling of waiting for the results, not being able to see the results at the split of a second.

This blog resonates with me because I've been feeling I want to pause more, to create more memories, to be in the moment. I should go to a café without phones and a notepad.

[Towaway69]

Well said: it’s a privilege to be able to access everything on a device that isn’t much larger than the TV remote with which I grew up with!

Your comments make me glad I spent a childhood having to use analog phones to connect to the information superhighway - much pausing and reflection involved.

I guess we’ve come full circle with the spend of our societies, when we have a new generation rediscovering how to pause.

[yieldcrv]

yeah the somewhat post-instant gratification world is interesting

A lot of my Gen Z friends do it in a couple ways, like with analog and now old digital cameras, some abstaining from social media almost to a religious level of deterrence where posting a story on a holiday is the rebellion

makes me, a millenial, feel like all of my social friends pretending to be influencers are doing something outdated, and everyone that's otherwise unregulated on their social media consumption are the same as chain smokers or opium addicts before the Opium Wars (dopamine wise, I'm aware of the exact similarity)

I'm interested and intruiged

[xiande04]

How did you get on top of the cafe?

[etra0]

non-native english mistakes and my stubborness to check with any LLMs :)

[xiande04]

Well, I had zero idea you were a non-native English speaker, so it looks like you're doing pretty well!