Pending

David Michael Newstead | The Philosophy of Shaving

Lately, I’ve been going through a lot of historical records and old files for a project I’m working on. This has actually been really fun and educational, but one random find made me laugh. I was digging through some manila folders from the mid-1950s when I came across one marked “Pending.” Sure enough, there were a couple pieces of paper in there about specific people to get back to and a few to-do list items. Then, I stopped to really think about it… Wars have been waged. Nations rose and fell. People were born, lived, and died. But these things have been pending this entire time and I guess, at this point, they always will be. And one day, mine and everyone else’s last to-do list will be left flapping in the wind forever as some cosmic joke about time and mortality. Eternally pending.