A Walk Through Memory Lane
The passage “Note to Selfie,” by John Dickerson is about gaining the ability to relive memories through digitally recording via smartphone. Dickerson believes that smartphones have changed the game completely. We can simply touch a button and capture a life’s worth of moments. He states “I’ve captured more through my iPhone than my pen,” (Dickerson 256). Dickerson himself is a writer, who prefers to use his iPhone to record more than a journal and pen could do. The use of smartphones is beneficial because it allows one to record their life.
Dickerson’s passage is mainly composed on his life experiences and includes examples on how he uses his smartphone to capture meaningful moments with his children. For instance, he mentions “We talked until the pine needles we sat on were fully embedded, and then we took a selfie before climbing down for dinner. Now wherever I am, I can access those feelings by looking at a picture of that perch,” (Dickerson 257). Dickerson’s remembrance of that day is all told through the selfie he took with his son. It’s one captured moment that contains so
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Since our generation has such easy access to smartphones, it’s now so much easier to record everything. Its intriguing to see how one changes and outgrows phases in our lifetime. Therefore, having visual aids to reflect on is a representation of walking through memory lane. Speaking of memory lane, I recently looked back at my camera roll and saw pictures of me moving into Davis. It amazed me to think that in a matter of months, I changed from a high school student to a girl taking on college. A huge transition in my life, and all captured in my iPhone. My growth as an individual is all in the palm of my hand and that’s the best part of it. No matter where I’m at I can always access it and look back at how far I’ve