My pen ran out of ink this morning.
No more will its happy clicking trigger my thought processes at work. No more will its translucent yellow body’s inability to balance out its dainty nib inspire daily irritation.
Yet, those last faint lines it left on my notepad were met with dread.
NOW?! You’re running dry, NOW?!
It’s not that I was about to pen the most brilliant idea ever penned in history, but I knew with lightning clarity that this delay would derail the rest of my day.
Who knows, I could have written a note that would eventually be sold for millions of dollars years after my death.
Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein’s note to his delivery man in Japan has now been sold for $1.56 million. How in the heck does a hand-written note to a delivery man get sold for that much?
“A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.”
And,
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Perhaps it’s the wisdom of his noteworthy tip. Maybe it’s because its Einstein’s particular wisdom that justifies the note’s worth.
You may argue that it has more to do with Einstein, and his contributions to physics that justifies the price.
I suppose it depends on your worldview, and whether you place more importance on improving the self, than improving the science.
How’s that for relativity?