one morning, with the errant press of a button, I overwrote the file that had contained my work and weeks of toil were simply obliterated. Not a catastrophic fire or an explosion, but the innocent stroke of a key had annihilated what I had previously put so much of myself into for so many days. This led me to radically doubt the weight of that work.
for - accidentally deleting a file - emphemeral - reflections - This has happened to me a number of times as well. - My reflection of this is that everything is transient, our lives, our work are all footprints in the sand, washed away with the next incoming wave - How important are ideas, these combinations of words that we prize above other combination of words? - Humans value things, nature has no such intrinsic value. - Evolution can wipe out an entire species without batting an eyelash, a meteor can wipe out all life on a planet, it doesn't matter to reality because reality does not pass judgment - good and bad, ethics is not inherent in nature, only in human nature