Immortalizing is a disease

A couple days ago a man told me certain cultures had this inherited disease, quite a nasty bug, though more of a psychological condition than an illness.

I suppose it could be summed up in one word: photographs.

Now, this disease is quite peculiar, affecting many different kinds of people. It entails having the undying, compulsive need to take pictures of everything, to document every part of life in vain attempt to preserve now. However, little do these camera-philes know, they are never going to achieve this tantalizing goal, for as soon as their cameras flash, the moment is long gone, and despite the photographic evidence you have of it occurring, it will never be there again.

It's strange, how hard we try to live in the present, and how difficult we find it to do so.