Outside of this site which I abandoned entirely for something like six years I’ve never been one to document all that much of my life and even less so with the intent of being consumed by a public audience, imagined or otherwise. The obsessive selfie takers have always annoyed me and before that the person in a group who wanted everyone in that group to pose in front of things to get group photos while the remainder of us were happy to just walk around and be there in the place we were visiting. My former family-in-law were very much like this and trips would be spent dutifully marching from one spot to pose in front of to another and I’m very glad that I’m not obligated to do this anymore despite being completely impatient with the practice and idea when I was participating in it.
As disinterested as I typically am in photography (the practice not the product) article about the destructive and egotistical practice of forcibly inserting your looking glass self into everything you do was well worth reading. The separation between whatever thing you do with your spare moments and your identity is one I think is healthy.
