On Fossils and Our Duty to Write

By: Luz Filoteo

One thing I mourn most is the lack of resolution. In my geology class, I learned about resolution in regards to fossils, that is, how much evidence we have to paint a picture of an area. The more fossils there are, the higher the resolution, the clearer the picture of the past, else they are lost to the erosion of time. 

I mourn for generations who won’t have resolution of people. You are the most unique person in the world. You have such novel experiences, such unique ideas, such individual, one-of-a-kind feelings that no one else has. It is simply a shame not to write about them, good or bad or complicated, not for the reason that they need to be shared, although that is nice, but for the reason of preservation.  

The people of future deserve a rich and abundant resolution of us right now. We know more of our normal everyday day than we do of a lifetime from a thousand years ago.  

Give the future the gift of knowledge, about you. 

Write about your loves and joys and woes and what ails you because you know those experiences best, more than anyone else that has or is or ever will be. Preserve those feelings in amber sheets or rock or tar or opal, and let them travel far from this present moment to the hands of alien scholars or otherwise. Write so that the future knows you, knows about you and your feelings when you are long dead, ten thousand years from now. 

Please, write for the sake of knowledge and preservation.