Agreed. I have “lost years” from my twenties… not really lost of course but I looked so derisively upon the idiots with their selfie sticks, as I wandered aroun

Agreed. I have “lost years” from my twenties… not really lost of course but I looked so derisively upon the idiots with their selfie sticks, as I wandered around with my DSLR taking interestingly angled shots with absolutely no one I knew in them. It’s a fun hobby but in hindsight I think I had my priorities backwards. Every now and then I stumble across a photo I’m actually in and I’m shocked by how young I am. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the author of this piece was a college student at the time. I wonder if their perspective will change revisiting this article a decade or so later. (as a parent I feel it a hundred times over. I want to be entirely present but already feel extreme nostalgia for the days my kids were younger and love to watch old videos. It’s a constant balancing act.)