kodak moments

I was watching Oprah today and she talked about something that awakened my senses. she talked about a phenomenon known as the 'kodak moment'. Have you flipped through your album recently and realise how happy everyone usually looks in pictures. The ironic thing about photographs are that, they are suppose to capture moments in life. But, in actual fact they only show our idealistic view of what life should be. More often then not, we live our lives trying to achieve what photographs can achieve. We often try to fool ourselves into thinking that life is problem-free and everyone is always so happy. Take a picture of the holidays, for example. In every picture taken during the holidays, people are always smiling and putting on the euphoric expression upon their faces. But that is just at that moment. At that fraction of a second. The photo does not show what was happening before the picture was taken neither deos it show what happen after it was taken. As humans, we have the tendency to live our lives according to what society deems to be the 'correct' way of doing things.Whether we are happy doing those things or not, does not usually matters. What is important to us is that others think that we are happy. I think that people who thrives upon other's judgements are the people who does not have the confidence and believe in himself. This is something that i think we should all take a moment to ponder on.