Nothing is permanant?

While the DELF classes were going on, Sangamithra volunteered to write French vocabulary on the long white board. In her small, neat handwriting, she filled the board, for others to copy down. As she reached the end of the board, I got up to help her by wiping the first few lines. To our shock, we discovered that it was a permanant marker!
In the moments of confusion, many suggestions came. Those who had learned from their mistakes shared their success stories; Mr Muscle, or spirit or nail polish remover can remove the letters.
This morning Nethra brought the remedy, a small bottle of spirit. With all of us witnessing the cleaning, the red stains that were left behind was wiped by Swathi,with a wet cloth that we had in the room and in few minutes, the white board became whiter than before.
I learned not only the 'solution' for that problem, but also appreciated the initiative of the kids to solve it. Also a little enlightenment happened, that any mistake can be corrected, any thing can be erased, though it is made by something which claims to be a 'permanant marker'. So keep only what is worthy to be kept, erase the rest and get a new look!