the chase

Read this entry on 隨意詩人 (undoubtedly, in Chinese) and it made me wonder. Were young people of the past constantly chasing their past, or were they too busy living their present, making their future and creating history, knowing that when long enough has passed, their time would become like a carnival that people would want to visit over and over again.

On a vaguely related note, this article in NYT really stumped me. It's about how Photoshop is being used to remove or include people in pictures. Wiping out the face of your ex-husband from all the pictures so you can display them without having to dwell on bad memories? Oookay, maybe it makes sense. Digitally imposing yourself into historical moments? Yeah, well, it's novelty and some people like that sort of thing. To photoshop faces of absent family members into pictures documenting important events, however, is something I can't get my head around.

I just don't get it. No picture can beat the actual experience and the point of an event picture is to spark off memories about that one one day, one moment in your life. What is the value of such an image then? A picture speaks a thousand words and with this, the phrase takes on new meaning. It's no longer a story about a part of your life, it's the story of your emotional and psychological mindset.