So the other night I was out with a friend of mine and when ou | paperback

So the other night I was out with a friend of mine and when our dinner was served I didn’t take a picture of my very good-looking salad. I forgot. But it was after two bites that I said: “Oh I almost forget to take a picture of my salad like I wasn’t born in 02.”
The truth is I’ve been capturing everything since I was 10 years old. I don’t know how it started but soon we were all doing it. It almost feels like my whole life has been a reality show and I have been the main character. I have even filmed myself doing the most normal activities for no reason, it just made me feel comfortable having the impression that I am visible to that tiny camera. At times I have felt like nobody can see me the way this tiny camera does. This tiny camera has been a good friend and even a lover seeing me the way I, myself, would like to see me. Maybe they are right; our whole generation is obsessed with being visible.
What I spontaneously said to my friend the other night has made me think that maybe I’ve been doing what I’m supposed to do. I mean maybe I’m doing it all because I was born in 2002 and had my Instagram account when I was 11 years old. Without even thinking about it. One doesn’t think about eating because it’s a long-term habit, I never thought about not being active on social media, it has always been like the act of eating for me. I am gonna turn 20 years old very soon and I was thinking that I spent a decade of my life being visible, a decade of being the star of my own reality show and I’d very much like to spend the rest like I wasn’t born in 02. Of course, I’m gonna keep my journals, take pictures with my analog cameras, send my writings to magazines, text my friends but I think I’m gonna do it all without being visible from now on.