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"All your better deeds shall be in water writ, but this in marble" is a quote from a French play called Philaster. This was the line that John Keats is said to have used for the basis of his epitaph, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
The original quote implies that some awful thing will be what the character is remembered for, and all other memories of him will pale against it. For me, the concept is, existence is temporary. Memory is temporary.
All of the words in this journal, even, are writ in water. One day, I will lose interest and delete the whole thing, and if not, then at the very least, years after I'm dead, it will be deleted to make room on a server.
But it's not just, "Everyone will forget you," it's "everything is temporary, including these bad feelings, including this setback. This entry about how terrible you feel will feel silly six months from now when you're happy and feeling nostalgic and re-read your entries."
And that's it, really.
"All your better deeds shall be in water writ, but this in marble" is a quote from a French play called Philaster. This was the line that John Keats is said to have used for the basis of his epitaph, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
The original quote implies that some awful thing will be what the character is remembered for, and all other memories of him will pale against it. For me, the concept is, existence is temporary. Memory is temporary.
All of the words in this journal, even, are writ in water. One day, I will lose interest and delete the whole thing, and if not, then at the very least, years after I'm dead, it will be deleted to make room on a server.
But it's not just, "Everyone will forget you," it's "everything is temporary, including these bad feelings, including this setback. This entry about how terrible you feel will feel silly six months from now when you're happy and feeling nostalgic and re-read your entries."
And that's it, really.
