Cameras again, but real this time.

Remember when people used to have to actually look through cameras to take pictures and not at them? Today I realized that even though I have owned my camera for over a year, I don't know that I've ever actually looked through it. I've just depended on the screen to tell me what picture I was taking. I didn't used to do that. I didn't used to have a camera that made me more dependant on a screen, on a digital representation of life, than on the actual thing I wanted to take a picture of. Today I finally looked through my camera. I looked through the little black square and saw the cross-hairs that help center the picture. I realized that I had missed that little square. The square that could push the whole world away. The square that could make you feel like you were in a little box, or covered by those black cloths you always see with the really old cameras. I don't want to miss it again. I don't want to be so dependant on technology that I forget about the simple little things that are really all you need. I'm going to try looking through the camera instead of at it. I'm going to try to break away from the false digital and look at the real. Wish me luck.