It’s All Dry-Erase
🤔 A reflection on the temporariness of things
I was prepping for a workshop, and the whiteboard I intended to use was covered in a math equation—my arch-nemesis.
I started to wipe it away, but felt a tinge of guilt. Perhaps the equation was important? But then, just as quickly, I thought,
“You don’t write something important on a dry-erase board.”
This eased my discomfort, and I proceeded to make the numbers disappear. And then another thought came in:
“When it’s all said and done, everything is dry-erase.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s etched in stone, tattooed on flesh, or stored in the annals of history; everything we deem important (including ourselves) will soon be wiped away.
How long something lasts isn’t necessarily a measure of its significance. In fact, it is the temporariness of life, relationships, and all we hold dear that makes it so special.
It’s rarely known when the eraser will make its way to our project, when that last conversation, that final contribution will take place. That’s not our equation to solve.
What matters now is now.
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