Selfie Virus

Childhood is the best part of life. Going through childhood diaries and photographs is always fun and as everyone does, I too enjoy it. I do have a huge collection of my childhood pictures and recently all those were collected into a single album. This included group photos with friends and family and also photographs from school functions and events. What was truly remarkable about these photographs, other than the fact that they were the outcome of non-digital photography, was that all those photographs not just captured me but also the people and the environment around me and also these pictures were taken by a third person who might have been well trained in handling the camera.
Later a day, I happened to look at the gallery in my own phone and it was quite disappointing that it only consisted of my selfies , majority of them taken in college with my crazy friends[and every picture included Anju as we used to take selfies using her phone as it had superb picture quality].We had even used Father Daniel's Royal Enfield to take selfie and set it as our profile picture.
The difference between the handcrafted album and the gallery in my phone highlighted how we have fast become victim's of 'selfie virus'. Even in classrooms, if we get an hour free, all are busy taking selfies resulting in no or little time being left for chit chat[which really worries me].
So it's high time to go back to good old days, appreciating things around us, rather than just marveling at ourselves. Thus we need to go back to being behind the lens, rather than in front of it!

-Keerthana  L S