I happened to read in a specialised magazine that the new frontier of tourism is disconnection. This is more or less clear to everyone, those who go on holiday want to relax and rest from the stress of work, traffic and the hectic pace of urban life or simply enjoy a good time with the family.
Unplugged holidays to reconnect with oneself. In fact, this new trend is not only about the very justified desire to take a break from our many daily commitments, but also about unplugging our mobile phone chargers, in general disconnecting from all electronic devices whether they are second screens or televisions, in short, that we ourselves, for once, put ourselves in aeroplane mode without multimedia interference. There are hotels that do not have television or wifi as a choice, nowadays it is not necessary to go to a hermitage to seek disconnection, sometimes it is enough to leave the mobile phone at home and returning to simply enjoying a sunset, paying full attention to it and living that wonderful moment in tune with ourselves without necessarily feeling the need or the impulse to photograph it.
How many times in the face of the beautiful colours of the morning have we put a camera between us and the sky? If we don’t film something, it seems as if that something doesn’t exist, instead it is there, in front of us, in full force. I remember a beautiful sunset in Formentera, the sun looked like a red marble swallowed by the sea, the colours were extraordinary and in those few moments more or less everyone present, to film that moment, had missed it. Almost twenty years have passed since that day and the cameras of mobile phones filmed with very few pixels, there were no stabilisers and the hands moved high as if to better focus on what was really going to be experienced and not recorded. How many today, so many years later, will have wanted to see again those badly pixelated and blurred images of a setting sun in the Balearic Islands? They will most probably have gotten lost or have remained in the memory of an old Nokia and have never been transferred to a hard disk…When there were no mobile phones, there were cameras, but we didn’t take photos of everything (let alone the things we ate) but rather the photo represented a cathartic moment, a testimony of a place, a paper object that became a symbol, so holidays travelled in our minds and in some (paper) photos and not in remote memories or in the cloud, they were memories that we became attached to and perhaps that is why there was a need to take home a bit of that holiday.
All this is to suggest you to enjoy your holidays and leave your phone in your bag, to slow down the frenetic pace of everyday life as sometimes it is enough not to look at the screen. So dear friends, let’s enjoy this postcard sea with its crystal clear waters, reality without filters is much better than any photoshop, and if you want to materialize your memories, take home a little piece of your holidays in the form of an object: Buen Sol to all, or better said, BonSoul!