I loved this too. I'll copy this Note I posted yesterday:
> I don't even take photos of things I do for myself. My camera roll is a wasteland. It’s an interesting meta-pattern: musicians try to capture feelings in a song, or try to capture the impossibility of capturing itself; photographers try to capture a moment that is invariably desecrated by the pixelated failure of a camera; bloggers try to capture a memory that immediately began to fade before they even started writing. There's nothing wrong with this in moderation—the failure of the attempt can be quite beautiful—but the perennial inability to accept ephemerality creates an endless low-grade stress and disruption of the natural flow. Intimacy is destroyed because it is dependent upon vulnerability; what vulnerability can be genuinely expressed when you have an audience to fall back on? I once ordered delivery for a beloved friend and she immediately posted it on Instagram captioned get yourself a friend who'll do this for you, and it completely cheapens it because it sends the signal that your gift isn't appreciated in and of itself in the context of the relationship, but as a narcissistic status marker.
Your writing is extraordinary. Just a wonderful piece.
I loved this too. I'll copy this Note I posted yesterday:
> I don't even take photos of things I do for myself. My camera roll is a wasteland. It’s an interesting meta-pattern: musicians try to capture feelings in a song, or try to capture the impossibility of capturing itself; photographers try to capture a moment that is invariably desecrated by the pixelated failure of a camera; bloggers try to capture a memory that immediately began to fade before they even started writing. There's nothing wrong with this in moderation—the failure of the attempt can be quite beautiful—but the perennial inability to accept ephemerality creates an endless low-grade stress and disruption of the natural flow. Intimacy is destroyed because it is dependent upon vulnerability; what vulnerability can be genuinely expressed when you have an audience to fall back on? I once ordered delivery for a beloved friend and she immediately posted it on Instagram captioned get yourself a friend who'll do this for you, and it completely cheapens it because it sends the signal that your gift isn't appreciated in and of itself in the context of the relationship, but as a narcissistic status marker.
Oh yes.