Have you ever been amazed by how small the world actually is? I know I have lived through and heard about many different ‘small-world’ stories throughout the years, yet somehow I’m still surprised every time I hear a new one. I think that’s the beauty of it, nothing ceases to surprise us in this wonderful world.
I just came across an amazing and probably the craziest story I have ever heard of… this real life tale is about a guy whose phone is stolen and follows it all the way to China, only to become famous and gain a best friend for life. If you haven’t heard about it, please check it out… it’s so worth the long read: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/i-followed-my-stolen-iphone-across-the-world-became-a-celebr?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#.ggnkQD3zy
This story is amazing by itself, but the reason I decided to share it with my photo enthusiasts is because of the way these 2 individuals found each other and became best friends: through photography! So it goes…
A guy gets his phone stolen at a bar, months later, after he gets a new phone, these kind of photos start appearing on his new phone…
He’s freaked out, doesn’t know where the photos are coming from… turns out that his stolen phone ended up in China and this man in front of the oranges had it and any photos taken were saved through the cloud since the stolen phone was not disconnected. What I found interesting was that he was able to learn about this man’s life through the different photographs or snapshots on the iphone. He was able to gain some insight into who this man was, what he liked, and the places he visited or frequented. It’s crazy to think that you can get to know someone simply through a couple of snapshots. Once he met the strange orange man in China, he figured out this man had a small restaurant, famous for his oranges, lived in a small town in China and has a couple of little kids. Knowing this information helped to explain those photos.
I thought it was crazy how much you can find out about a person through a simple couple of snapshots, not only that, but they bonded over taking selfies and even more photos. They didn’t speak each others’ languages and yet they could communicate, hang out, and become life long friends. You can actually see as the days go by how better friends they become through the photos, I loved that part of the already crazy story.
I just love how much power photographs can have, how much you can tell from a snapshot, how much they can reveal about our personal feelings and lives in general. We might not think about photos this way, but we just don’t realize how personal snapshots can be, they can even include inside jokes that no one will understand unless they knew you. From now on, let’s try to think about how much our photographs can reveal about ourselves and thus understand the reason behind why they are so meaningful to us.
The Camera Life 