An Ending
While we all have an abstract understanding that all things have endings, we tend to think of endings as a discrete point, situated always somewhere off in a distant land called the future. In reality our end is always already underway. The markets where we sell our goods begin to close down - a few at first, and then more, and more. Our customers relocate or lose interest in our wares, and the product which is ourself becomes less of a bargain with each passing moment. There are words that could be said about this economic downturn, lots and lots of words.
One friend will say “soon,bro”, and then in what seems the blink of an eye you will have heard these words a hundred thousand times. A certain number of days later, you will forget when you last heard any words addressed to you at all.
One day you yourself will have spoken your final words, and they will sound like this: “OK no problem”. “Fingers crossed.” “I miss you.”
An Ending
While we all have an abstract understanding that all things have endings, we tend to think of endings as a discrete point, situated always somewhere off in a distant land called the future. In reality our end is always already underway. The markets where we sell our goods begin to close down - a few at first, and then more, and more. Our customers relocate or lose interest in our wares, and the product which is ourself becomes less of a bargain with each passing moment. There are words that could be said about this economic downturn, lots and lots of words.
One friend will say “soon,bro”, and then in what seems the blink of an eye you will have heard these words a hundred thousand times. A certain number of days later, you will forget when you last heard any words addressed to you at all.
One day you yourself will have spoken your final words, and they will sound like this: “OK no problem”. “Fingers crossed.” “I miss you.”