Forgotten

:reposted due to grammar error:

I think, out of everything, what we fear most is to forget.
To forget a friend, a grandmother, a memory.

Happy memories, ofcourse. Although, if bad memories were forgotten, we wouldn't remember the lessons we learned from those bad memories, which isn't a very good thing.

Anyway, to forget, or to be forgotten.
It's scary, it's hurtful.

I guess that's why, people tend to take pictures everywhere and every second of the day.
Because to capture a picture would be to capture a moment, forever. To capture a person's features, that we may never forget how they look, forever.
It's wonderful how you can take one look at a picture and a warm rush of memories come flooding through. I love that.
But, people tend to forget the most important thing : to live in the moment.
We capture and record those all those moments we want to keep forever, yet only get to experience it through the lens of a camera.
The experience becomes.. unoriginal.. un-first hand.
But then again, of course, we wouldn't want to forget that time we attended that concert, or went to this party. Because we are all scared.
Scared that we might not cling on to that memory hard enough that it might just slip away.
That face we so clearly knew at the back of our hand just 5 years ago begin to fade away.

With all that said, pictures, are again, just pictures.
Perhaps we would retain much, much more of the memory. Much, much more of that person, if we would just not out so much effort into trying remember a moment, but truly just live in that moment. Then at least, you can say you lived that moment, and it is yours to treasure.

Forget we might, but it doesn't negate the fact that that moment occured.

look up from the lens, start living those moments.