Etch-a-sketch is a fleeting thing. One second you have a drawing, the next you have a white screen... The drawings are erased with a fraction of the difficulty spend actually drawing.
With so much at stake, some might wonder "why even bother? It's just going to get erased." The answer is the process. Starting from nothing, gaining inspiration, spending time and dedication, then erasing... It's a wonderful thing to be able to physically destroy it as soon as you are done. This amount of devotion (the creation as well as the destruction) is seldom found anywhere else in our world; a similar process might be considered snowmen, as they are sure to melt eventually. However, snowmen are made to be admired by passersby, etch-a-sketch is kept in a room and viewed by the artist and maybe his roommates.
To take pride in your work is an under appreciated accomplishment. Progressing beyond that work is even more under appreciated and even more unpracticed. The skills and practice gained in events such as etch-a-sketch may not be specifically applicable with anything else in the world, but the values and character built in such exercises is truly priceless. Go out and enjoy the process of something new and possibly tedious.
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