The World Within a Screen

I found my nephew sitting on the living room rug this morning, completely still. He was watching a show on the tablet, his mouth slightly open, eyes wide and unblinking. I called his name twice, but he didn’t hear me. He wasn’t in our living room anymore; he was somewhere else entirely, chasing imaginary heroes or solving puzzles in a world I couldn’t see. It made me realize how rare that kind of total focus becomes as we get older. We spend so much of our adult lives multitasking, worrying about the next email or the grocery list, that we rarely give ourselves permission to be fully consumed by a single thing. There is a quiet, sacred kind of magic in that level of surrender. It is the way we look when we are truly happy, before the world teaches us to be self-conscious or distracted. I wonder, when was the last time you were so lost in a moment that you forgot the room you were sitting in?

Lavi Dhurve has captured this exact feeling of wonder in the image titled Watching Cartoon. It is a beautiful reminder of how childhood turns the ordinary into something extraordinary. What does this image bring back to your own memory?