Plastic free: Highlighters
Friends. Family. We are gathered here today to pay our final respects to YellowHighlighter.
A devoted and faithful companion to EnviroWoman for many, many years YellowHighlighter shared her love of reading, reconciling bank statements, and drawing on TheBeast’s nose.
He was her ever-constant StudyBuddy through 14 years of post secondary school and even accompanied her into the hallowed halls of CorporateCanada.
And she…well she was as equally devoted to YellowHighlighter... buying him by the Costco-boxful to ensure he was always close at hand. She took him everywhere. And when he paled from exhaustion, she would replenish his ink to renew his purpose in life.
I asked her once what she loved about YellowHighlighter and her answer was simple, as true love often is…“He fills my life with color. He helps me focus on what’s really important.”
So devoted was she, that when YellowHighlighter was on his deathbed, the yellow drained out of him, and now just a mere hunk of plastic compared to his former self, EnviroWoman despaired “There will never be another.”
And indeed, life will never be the same for EnviroWoman.
And we, her family and friends, must rally around her in this time of despair and no-plastic adjustment. When she reaches for her life-long companion YellowHighlighter, we must offer her ballpoint pens and pencil crayons instead.
We must remind her that his memory will go on forever, and indeed, so will his body since he’s made of non-biodegradable plastic.
After the service, please join us at the LocalLandfill where we will lay YellowHighlighter’s body for its final rest, as it does not appear to be recyclable.
And now my friends, please turn to page 22 of your hymnals and raise your voices in celebration of a life that once was…and EnviroWoman’s life that is now reborn…plastic-free.
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see….
Rest in Peace YellowHighlighter. Rest in No-Plastic-Peace my friend.
So here’s how things add up:
Category: Highlighters
SAINT: The good old ball point pen (I’m using my all metal Cross pen) and have dug into my supply of Prismacolor pencil crayons (why didn’t I ever think of this before?)
Price: Way cheaper
Quality: Not quite as pretty and colorful…but really, who cares…you’re just marking up paper
SINNER: All highlighters, especially the ones that are not refillable. Stabilo, Roundedge, Accent, Sanford, Eberhard Faber
Lessons learned:
- Think outside the box. There is more than one way to bring color into your life.
- Think outside disposables. Let’s face it, we live in a disposable society. Everything seems throw-a-away now adays…But here’s the kicker…the one thing that isn’t disposable is the planet. We gotta start refusing disposables.
- Stop being blind. Start seeing. Stop being lost. Get found. (that doesn't sound right does it?...but you know what I mean). Either we change our ways and start trying to create HeavenOnEarth, or the planet goes to hell in a hand basket and takes us along with it. (Rightly so, too)
