Completionists, Somedayists, Listists
Completionists
They take photos to create an account of their life
Each album is like a passport stamp, evidence that they have made some footprints
Gotta catch’em all as a way of being
They can tell you how many countries they have visited and ask if you have done x and been to y
They go to the Louvre and take a photo of the Mona Lisa so they can check it off the list
Do they ever experience the artwork or just take their snapshot and move on?
Do they want to prove to someone else that they are alive, or prove to themself?
“I was here” they can graffiti on the landscape
“I had some significance in this world” they wish to convey
Somedayists
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe another day
Maybe someday
They commit in their minds
They make oaths to the possibility the future holds
Just not today
Perhaps they make lists that accumulate like dust things to do, places to go
They furnish their subjunctive world quite lavishly
The way of being is to move from task to task
While the realm of reality becomes greyer
They gradually become dulled to the hits of dopamine as their little lives become routine
Perhaps they will start living when they retire, if their physical health doesn’t give way before then
Perhaps they will start living someday
Listists
Both have great expectations of what life ought to be
Amounting to vague and infinite lists
They will be disappointed
Pathetic lies named HAPPINESS and FULFILLMENT
Life is a cruel schoolmaster
"They take photos to create an account of their life"
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They take photos because they anticipate (correctly since it is felt as a great moment) that time will come when they will remember the moment. When that time comes having in hand a picture of the past moment will make the recollection even more vivid, detailed and pleasant.
The same goes with making-lists. We anticipate death, or at least the "it is now too late for it" moment. We anticipate that time will come when we will regret not having done this and that things and we act pre-emptively. We try to make sure that when that time comes it will find us with those things done (lived, achieved) and therefore we won't experience regrets.
That's how we are structurally. We always act (now) in reference to the future. We always make plans and we live no in the present moment but in our not-yet-present futures, in our dreams. The meaning of the present moment is what we think that it will later become present.