Dharmendra Sethi’s Post

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠… 𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫? I click a lot of photographs. Probably more than I need to. Landscapes. Streets. Moments in transit. Sometimes, details others might overlook. I often get a notification from my phone that the storage is ‘almost full’. And when I pause to decide what to delete, I often find myself going down memory lane. It makes me wonder: does recording everything dilute the experience… or deepen it? What’s most human about us is that we all remember differently. We don’t remember everything, but we remember what moved us. A photograph freezes what was visible. Memory holds what was felt. There are pictures on my phone that are technically ordinary. But I remember exactly what I was feeling in that moment. Other images, perfectly composed, carry very little emotion now. So perhaps the camera doesn’t compete with memory. It quietly nudges it. I still take many photographs. Not to record everything, but to hold on to a few anchors… small reminders of where I was, what I saw, and occasionally, who I was becoming in that moment. The rest, I trust memory to shape in its own imperfect, very human way. #photos #memories #camera #travel