I recently purchased a box of matches.
As you may know, striking a match against the proper surface causes it to ignite. (Unless you’re using strike-anywhere matches which are hard to find.) Prior to ignition there’s a moment where there are two immediate potential outcomes: ignition or nothing. Other factors can have an impact on these two potentialities. There are days where one may sit and strike match after match after match after match igniting each one. Combustion and burn out. There’s only so much wood to burn. There are other days where one will strike and—nothing.
“The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it.”
I’m not really sure what the point of this post is. I just wanted to write. So interesting.
