Psychology tells you that you must take pictures when traveling.

Getting on the bus to sleep and getting off the bus to take pictures is a travel habit of many people. Many people go to a beautiful place and feel as if they have never been to this place without taking pictures. Many photos were quickly sent to the circle of friends, and then I looked forward to giving them a compliment. This is a show-off. After all, no one likes jinyi nocturnal travel. However, travel photos are not just for praise. Before there was no WeChat, people still liked to take pictures when they couldn't send a circle of friends.

In fact, the greatest use of taking pictures for us is the preservation and reproduction of memories. Why is taking photos so important for traveling? Travel is an experience. Seeing beautiful scenery, feeling different customs and tasting delicious snacks will make your life colorful. These memories form an inseparable part of life and even shape you as a person.

We often say "learn from experience" and "learn from experience". Experience will affect and change a person's personality and promote our growth. Isn't experience just memorizing? As a way of future behavior, we analyze past events in memory, get rid of harmful behaviors, and keep and carry forward beneficial behaviors, which forms experience. Simply put, experience is to extract, reproduce, analyze and correct memories.

Both words and images are helpful to memory, and images have advantages over words. It is direct, vivid and impressive. Moreover, it is easier for us to look at images than words, because words need to be understood with our brains, while looking at pictures only needs our intuition. Intuition is the most labor-saving way to use your brain.

Taking pictures is also more efficient than writing. You just need to focus well, gently press the shutter or mobile phone screen, and it will be completed in a few seconds. And if you still use words to record, even the fastest typing speed will not be completed in a few seconds. In addition, it takes time to conceive words. Also, taking photos is an objective reproduction, and writing is to add subjective feelings. Taking pictures is more real and comprehensive. (Of course, this is for most ordinary people, excluding those who are good at writing and make a living. They can add imagination and carry out artistic processing. Perhaps the scene written is more beautiful than the photo, and our focus here is not on the comparison between the photo and the code word. )

Taking photos can better preserve good memories, and storing memories is an important purpose of people's travel and will affect our travel experience. Some places you have been to, many years later, when you see those photos again, those memories at that time will roll in like a flood. It seems that you have experienced that trip again, and those wonderful experiences come back to your mind. I believe that when you look at the photos at this time, there must be a long smile on your mouth.

Although you haven't seen some photos since, it doesn't matter if you don't look at them, because it is said that taking pictures is effortless. However, if an excellent scenery is not photographed. The regret that I want to see but can't find in the future is extremely strong. You can't go there again. The cost of time, energy and money is great.

By taking pictures, we collected our memories. We often describe a pleasant trip as "unforgettable" because we attach great importance to the memory of the trip and naturally give this memory some beautiful meanings, such as meeting the other half at a certain moment, meeting a lucky and unforgettable thing for the first time in life, which can't be achieved by other experiences. How happy it would be if there were photos to witness and commemorate this wonderful moment. But if this memory disappears, it will greatly reduce the experience of this trip and make this trip worthless.

Imagine: if the trip is over, all your photos will be destroyed; Or you will take a dose of medicine and erase all the memories of your trip. Will the willingness to travel decrease? The above two options are extreme, so imagine what it's like to see a beautiful place when traveling, only to find that there is no camera and the phone is dead.

Of course, this does not mean that you only take photos when you travel, and you don't feel it with your heart. After all, photos are just an objective presentation, and one of its major functions is to make your inner feelings reappear when traveling.

This topic is mentioned in Thinking, Fast and Slow. At the end of the book, a very Zen conclusion is drawn: everyone is himself in memory.