"But what is life without documentation?!"

[DanaC]

I borrowed a line from one of Sundae's posts for the title of this thread, because as I read it it sparked a thought:

My relationship with the world has altered. Altered in subtle, almost unnoticed ways. I never really had much time for cameras. Wasn't something I gave much thought to. From time to time a holiday or an event might provoke the purchase of a disposable camera, often lost before ever getting to the developer. It barely occurred to me to record even major events, let alone a new haircut, my new shoes, or the view out my window (the possible exception to this being pictures of Pilau which I used to take with mum's camera).

Getting a digital camera, and being part of a community that engages in trivia-sharing as such a basic part of its identity, has changed this.

I looked back at a bunch of pictures currently sitting in My Documents. One of them is of an electric slow-cooker....filled with broth. That's it, just a cooker and its contents. There's also a picture of a very heavily chewed cock (*grins*, a rubber cockerel that is, as chewed by the Pilster).

So, when I read Sundae's post I thought, yes I lead a documented life. My relationship with the minutiae of my life has altered.

This led on to me thinking about others ways in which my world has changed. Changes in the ways I access knowledge and my expectations of the same. Changes in my relationship with entertainment and my expectations of that. At the core, all these changes relate to communication. Even my expectations of when and how I, or others, will be available for contact has been fundamentally altered by the mobile phone.

Every so often it's quite exciting to think about how much and how fast our world (and what it means to be us) is changing.