Life Should Be More than Collecting Content
Look with your eyes, not your phone
There I was, at the moment I’d spent my afternoon and evening trying to experience. I’d traveled to a point on the Greek coast, where I would sit next to an ancient temple and watch the sun set over the Aegean Sea.
Well, me and several hundred other people.
The hot, crowded tour buses had disgorged us tourists by the dozens. We’d all traveled far and spent big for moments like this. Most of us were on tight schedules assigned by our tour guides, who’d been probably here twice already today — hike up, watch the sunset, and then hustle back down to your bus at 7:45 sharp!
Despite the manufactured nature of the experience, it was really spectacular. The weather was perfect, the skies cloudless, and the sea birds were performing acrobatics over the water. We watched the sun slowly sink behind an island, and the sky slowly lit up orange and red.
Then the drone zipped right past my head.
It buzzed over me and sped right down the golden trail of sunlight that reflected off of the water, on a route surely chosen to get the most spectacular footage. It seemed that one of my fellow sightseers was not satisfied with the view from the cape; they wanted to capture the whole thing with their fancy…
