The Internet Made Us Observers

Source: Dev.to

Reflection

There was a time when moments simply happened.
You went to a concert.
And that was it.

Then the internet changed something.
Not suddenly.

Now when something interesting happens, our first instinct isn’t always to live it.
A concert becomes a sea of glowing phone screens.

Somewhere in the back of our minds, there’s always the thought:

Instead of fully being in a moment, we partially step outside of it.
Observers of our own lives.

The internet gave us incredible things.

Sometimes the best moments are the ones that never make it online.

Because the rarest thing in the age of the internet might simply be an unrecorded moment.