The Painting

[BLASTER872 1,892]

Foreword (finally got it right this time): This is copy + pasted from my blog with a few changes, so if it looks familiar that is because it is.

 

Although nobody reads that anyway so let's just begin the piece.

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The Painting

 

 

Can you recall what life was like when you were little? If you can even recall those faded memories, everything that you did when you were younger barely seems important anymore. The regional mathematics competition you won years ago is just a memory now, a speck on the painting. All those times you spent with your friends are just neural patterns in your brain now; they’re gone. You can’t summon them back. Accepting the fact, you move on and the memory fades. The paint seeps in the pile of forgotten memories, slowly shrinking. What used to be the background of the painting is just a sweep of the brush, a tap on the painting.

 

As the painting grew, what used to be big is now little. Getting that final card in that card collection barely seems important now, just a light sweep of the brush on the painting. But before your painting grew, it was a cluster of trees. Maybe the entire forest at one point. As the painting grows, those memories you had before become… just that. Memories. Before, your life’s ambition was finishing a small book, or maybe a video game, but when you finally painted that core part of your masterpiece, what used to be the center of the painting is just a stroke in its shadow.

 

One day, everything in the painting as it is now will become little. Unimportant. Soon, the painting itself will become little. As your moments are just small parts of the painting, your painting will just be part of a gallery. Your painting will crack and become forgotten, some slower than others. When your painting becomes part of a gallery, an art exhibit, a story to be told, it will not be the painting. It becomes a painting.

 

You've got one painting. Make it a masterpiece.

Edited January 11, 2017 by tweezers

[tweezers 1,034]

-Formatted, corrected by Drakon.

-Approved by me.

[Tofu 6,773]

Such deep thought coming from a mult. Waw

[VaudeVille 1,428]

Masterpiece in the making..

[Blackdrakon30 2,943]

I really liked the imagery and the metaphor with the painting, and you managed to flawlessly weave the metaphor into your short blurb without it being too under or overstated. Excellent job Blaster! 

[Spit_Fyre 334]

I think you just redefined "Still life".

 

Amazing read!

[BLASTER872 1,892]

thx guys

 

First article under 400 by me gg

 

Edit: 400 words just so you know

Edited January 11, 2017 by BLASTER872

[NERF836 202]

You have a blog :O nice article!

[pieface101 285]

Noice!