Living in a picture-obsessed digital era

Do you look back on those days when photographs meant much more than just scrolling through your screen?

Polaroids, even now. ❤

I still remember the time when looking at photographs meant going through heaps of photo albums kept in the bottom left drawer of my cupboard and reminiscing about the good old days.

Everything felt so personal — the touch of the glossy inkjet paper, the blots of colors on it converging into an everlasting image, and the hour-long conversations that followed over a hot steaming coffee.

Quite contrary to that, today we simply scroll through the folders on our smartphones. Now we take fifty shots to find that one perfect selfie that is Instagram-worthy.

Welcome to the era of picture-obsessed lifeforms.

We are producing much more pictures every day that we can remember. The first purpose of ordering food in a restaurant today is no longer just the taste but also to click digitally yummy pictures of that food. And the same extends to practically everything in our life.

Somewhere we are exhausting ourselves so much in getting the right frame and the right clicks that we forget to live the moment and cherish it while we are still there.

Inevitably, most of these moments and memories are often forgotten relatively quickly as they get pushed further and further back in our phone’s camera rolls or social media feeds. Our digital prints keep getting replaced by new ones.

But what about the moments when you want to just stop and hold that memory close once again?

What about the people who you want to see every day but can’t, because you are living miles apart?

What about the good memories for which you are eternally thankful?

Can a digital scroll satiate this hunger?

I like my room to be filled with pictures that inspire me, which makes me feel grateful and happier for the life I am living. It is filled with several inspirational sayings that I look up to, with people who love me no matter what, and with places where I have done crazy things — such that it reflects on my daily mindset, and whenever I am out of a positive streak, I know I simply have to look at my wall.

This is how my feel-good-motivational wall looks like! ❤

While we head out of the door to live our hurried lives of expectations, the pictures on our walls invite us to something better. They remind us of a life filled with love and aspirations.

These polaroids give my thoughts a tangibility which a digital picture can never quench. That doesn’t mean digital photos cannot be cherished. It’s just that a physical flip or touch of the photos give an unusually heightened experience and connection than tapping on my screen.

Above all, a thought that always echoes through my mind — “Memories have power. Pictures can time-travel. And together, they are magic.”

Thanks to Zoomin, I could re-create some of that magic even in a digitally-obsessed-world like ours.

My polaroid prints have grown into a physical record that connects me to a stream of emotions, no matter how many times I look at them — showcasing the faces, places, and things that are near and dear to my heart at any moment in time. Seeing them inspires me.

Won’t you love seeing your precious memories come to life right on your walls rather than just swiping through a digital window?

Then go create some of your own magic in this picture-obsessed digital era. Get them printed!