What does a camera do for you?

What does a camera do for you? I believe that far to many people take for credit the wonders of a camera. The camera can capture a moment in time and make that moment last through time. When cameras were first developed it was an amazing technology, feared by some and accepted by others. Today we have lost this awe and just consider it another facet of life. I myself love cameras because I have very little pictures of my childhood. In fact if you were to look at my photo album it would jump from about 7 years to 18 years, with a few staggering pictures in between. A Camera can capture memories and looking back on these memories stirs emotion and gives us a remembrance of where we came from. Looking back of course I can remember my childhood and the events that took place, but I know that as I grow older, because I lack pictures I will begin to forget many of the memories I treasure now. Cameras extend past still pictures into moving pictures. The camera can capture real life in its simplest form. Looking at videos that were taken when you were little and sharing them with friends and family is an amazing experience "aw you danced/sang/walked/slept so cute" one which no parent should let their child go without. Since the development of digital cameras people are able to store their pictures and videos on their computers or hard drives. This is wonderful, because it allows us to take as many pics/vids as we want, but what happens if the computer crashes or the data is somehow erased. I have experienced this in the past year. I almost lost about 2 years of photos and videos which I viewed often. I was distressed, but luckily I was able to recover the data, by pure luck alone. These situations where data is erased or blocked are the biggest reason why everyone should have their photos developed and their videos put on to a VHS. I say developed because photos are physical objects, that cannot be destroyed by reckless abandonment, unlike data inscribing on Cd's. I say VHS for the same reason, it is a physical copy of the pictures, not just data recorded on a surface that can easily be scratched and ruined. You must back up an camera file on your computer and do it today. Trust me, you do not want to go through what I went through wondering if all your files were gone for good. In conclusion a camera is an amazing piece of technology that allows us to continue on after we are gone, through our photos/videos, through our memories imprinted in time.