Destroyed In Seconds -

You do not remember the explosion. You remember the silence that follows. The dust motes floating in the sunbeam where a wall used to be. The single teacup left unbroken on the edge of the rubble. The way a man in a hard hat sits down on the curb and removes his glasses, even though he isn't crying, because he can't quite figure out how to breathe.

Here is the strange, awful secret about things that are destroyed in seconds: the destruction is fast, but the after is eternal. destroyed in seconds

Today, we face a new kind of instant destruction: the digital erasure. You do not remember the explosion

We cannot build faster than we can break. A cathedral takes 800 years to raise. A reputation takes a lifetime to earn. A forest takes a generation to grow. The single teacup left unbroken on the edge of the rubble