Dear Humans,

You have very little control over what people remember about you. You’ll spend hours and hours with people, and yet there’s only a few words of yours that they’ll remember. And you don’t decide what they are. They just kind of end up there, and they stay there for years.

If only we had chisels and could carve our words into people’s memories! But we don’t. Instead, people have their own chisels–or fate or chance or luck hold the chisel–and the words of ours that are carved into their minds are what end up there. And no amount of new words can erase them from the stone.

So we have to be careful with our words. Anything we say might be the words that someone remembers, so everything we say should be something that we won’t mind ending up in the stone sculptures of another’s mind.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt