There are some things in life that you
can never do, but still you wish in your dreams. Time Travel is perhaps among
the most popular of them. All of us, we have some moments that we always want
to go back to. It may be the golden school days, wild college days, or simply
surrender yourself to the cool breeze of the beach you visited recently.
However, though science has not invented enough to make this practically feasible, but it has been successful to push the muscle that matters most, the Brain. I call the Camera nothing less than a Time Machine. It gives us the incredible power of capturing a moment with a click and re-visiting the same in years to come.
As a child, almost everyone gets fascinated by this machine. I was gifted a basic point-and-shoot camera when I was as young as 8. Gradually I took up interest in the subject, read some books, borrowed and bought better cameras whenever opportunities came. With a little bit of appreciation from the people around, this sparked a Fire and I became a shutterbug. I think almost everybody who still holds a camera has gone through these phases.
However, recently something happened that made me different.
I was in a national reserve forest with eyes prying to catch the sight of a wild animal. After a long and patient wait, it did appear for an instant. But suddenly I realized that I have lost of sight!
I did capture that instant with the lens of my camera, but I did not see it with my own eyes. The moment came & went away. And there I was, holding the proof of the moment, which I never really experienced!
It struck to me, be it pandal-hopping during the Durga Puja in Kolkata, or be it jungle safari, I was so obsessed with capturing the Moment, that I never really lived them. As if, I was very thirsty, but instead of drinking the water, I was busy accumulating it. And when I tried to take a sip, I discovered that the mug was like a mesh and all the water has seeped away, leaving me thirsty, over-worked and stupid.
After that, I stopped shooting pictures altogether. I live all the moments that come to me, and as Ol' Nature wants, I remember the moments that really means a lot to me and forget the rest! :)
Suits well to a lazy person like me I guess. ;)
However, though science has not invented enough to make this practically feasible, but it has been successful to push the muscle that matters most, the Brain. I call the Camera nothing less than a Time Machine. It gives us the incredible power of capturing a moment with a click and re-visiting the same in years to come.
As a child, almost everyone gets fascinated by this machine. I was gifted a basic point-and-shoot camera when I was as young as 8. Gradually I took up interest in the subject, read some books, borrowed and bought better cameras whenever opportunities came. With a little bit of appreciation from the people around, this sparked a Fire and I became a shutterbug. I think almost everybody who still holds a camera has gone through these phases.
However, recently something happened that made me different.
I was in a national reserve forest with eyes prying to catch the sight of a wild animal. After a long and patient wait, it did appear for an instant. But suddenly I realized that I have lost of sight!
I did capture that instant with the lens of my camera, but I did not see it with my own eyes. The moment came & went away. And there I was, holding the proof of the moment, which I never really experienced!
It struck to me, be it pandal-hopping during the Durga Puja in Kolkata, or be it jungle safari, I was so obsessed with capturing the Moment, that I never really lived them. As if, I was very thirsty, but instead of drinking the water, I was busy accumulating it. And when I tried to take a sip, I discovered that the mug was like a mesh and all the water has seeped away, leaving me thirsty, over-worked and stupid.
After that, I stopped shooting pictures altogether. I live all the moments that come to me, and as Ol' Nature wants, I remember the moments that really means a lot to me and forget the rest! :)
Suits well to a lazy person like me I guess. ;)
