If you've ever made a mistake, today is the day for you!
15th April, as not many of you know, is known as Eraser Day throughout the world. The day celebrates the invention of erasers and in some deeper way celebrates the mistakes people make and the fact that they can be rectified no matter how big they are.
All you need is a bit of tightly woven, soft as a feather and pure as an infant mass of Rubber, shaped into a perpetual gift. Though you can always choose your favorite color to erase out your naughtiness!
In the world of erasers, there are two men of prominence. Joseph Priestley discovered the eraser in 1770, using pieces of rubber imported from Brazil.
Later in 1858, Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia, Pa., patented the pencil with an eraser at the end, generally known as plug.
It was a belief, which stood true for a long time that only the manufacturing factories of pencils also made erasers, hence there never stood a solo plant for it. But in today's time things have changed for the importance of erasers seem more than the pencil.
Imagine your life without an eraser? There would be no way to amend one's mistakes. Once it's done, it cannot be undone. Life would become so difficult, wouldn't it? Let's find out what would happen if there was no eraser in the world, today.
Life without an eraser would be different, messier and for a pencil it would mean an empty head. Who would use a pencil if there weren't an eraser? Would people just use pens?
Tiny little pupils starting out school wouldn't have the fun of chucking the eraser at each other, while the importance of learning something new, making a mistake and taking joy in rigorous erasing sessions would be a thing of the past.
A lot of paper would be wasted, because instead of erasing, people would just tear the paper and throw it away in order to make their work neat. Projects and assignments would be so untidy.
Artists would suicide because every time they would make a mistake they would have to start afresh! Would they ever be able to finish a drawing/ sketch?
It may be small and lay almost non-existent in your pencil boxes, on the study table, lost in some section of your bag or among the litter that we create around us, unimportant it may look and for all that we know who really would think that a bit of rubber, cheap, easily borrowed and lost with no grievance could be even termed as important.
But seems like it is.
An eraser is not always treated badly though. If you ignore the ink stains and tarnished edges to the little hearts drawn on it, it lives quite a privileged life.
Other than God there is only an eraser that doesn't judge you by your mistakes and lets you use it on any surface. A status so near to the God himself, is surely an eraser's pride.
You always need it! The need to possess an eraser is so big that if you lose yours or forget it in ignorance, you'll beg, borrow, steal one, to correct your errors. Don't deny.
Unlike any other stationary, an eraser was bestowed with a partner-the pencil. Today we do get them separately but with some magical connection these two always end up close together. An eraser is never alone. Ever.
You do not pass it through a sharpener's blade or throw away its refills to replace its inner organs with new ones. No, never. An eraser is proud to what it is made and ends similarly. The pride and glory is nothing short of a human. Dust unto dust.
An eraser lives a life of almost the most desired stationary object of all. If its not enough you just need to look around in the shapes and sizes and colors it could be made into. But it remains as such till the end.
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