I came across an empty champagne bottle in the island of a parking lot this morning. I was trying to reconstruct the celebration it represented.
1. Assume a champagne bottle indicates some sort of celebration.
2. It must have been impromptu or covert as it took place in a parking lot beside a Krystal Restaurant.
3. Sometimes, covert or impromptu celebrations are the best, most heartfelt.
4. The bottle wasn't smashed, so that indicates some level of restraint.
5. No glasses were with it. Did they drink straight from the bottle?
6. It was more than one person, right?
7. It was a parking lot, some somebody was driving. Did they take part or did they celebrate without drinking?
8. Did they retrieve the cork and save for posterity? Was this celebration just for it's own sake and didn't have any meaning moving forward?
9. Why leave the bottle on the ground? No matter what kind of celebration- good/bad, deserved/capricious, fulfilling/cheap, wholesome/shady, in community/alone, or otherwise: leaving the bottle behind cheapens it.
How do we celebrate and how do we do it in a way that lets others know it's whole and authentic? Don't leave empty bottles behind.
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