You Are That Effervescent Tablet - Brief but Brilliant

Each of us, perhaps, has once been an effervescent tablet.

Dropped into a clean, transparent glass — a quiet kind of sacrifice. No sound, no struggle — only bubbles erupting from within, wild yet restrained. You shatter in silence, yet from your breaking, countless words are released.

It isn’t just chemistry — it feels like an offering.

You are a self compressed to the limit: infused with youthful unrest, angry sparks, unspoken wishes, and a speck of vitamin-C-like belief — faint but resolute.

You know your end is dissolution — yet still you glow, roll, and tremble without hesitation. Turning mere seconds into a nebular outburst in someone’s ordinary life.

Humans are so adept at disappearing without ceremony.

Laughter, names, fingerprints, and endless to-do lists all vanish into the cracks of air. No farewells, no rituals.

Like those tablets dissolving in the break room at noon, you remember the taste. Even that “Talk later,” from someone who never returned.

You once imagined your life as a whale fall — A slow decomposition in the deep sea, nourishing life, leaving legacy.

But in reality, you’re more like an effervescent tablet — only bright for a moment, then swallowed.

Yes, some live like statues, remembered by time. Others like welding sparks, briefly illuminating others.

But you — you choose to live as an effervescent tablet, Avalanching inside a water glass under fluorescent lights, making even a dull afternoon tea swirl like a galaxy. Even if no one remembers. Even if it’s just one brief bubbling.

Because you know, that one glass will be warmer because of you.

Maybe this cup is your glowing farewell. The person who drinks it might unknowingly gain a little strength. They won’t know that warmth came from your spin and your shatter.

But that doesn’t matter.

We are all dissolving slowly, in our own time zones, And you choose to answer time’s cruelty by fizzing in defiance.

Even if forgotten — you will shine once before dissolving.