When does a map stop being a tool and become a memory?
Some objects keep directions long after the journey ends.
A map changes when it begins pointing backward instead of forward.
At first, a map exists to reduce uncertainty. It answers practical questions. Which street? Which train? Which turn?
Years later, the same map can do something else entirely. A coffee stain, a folded corner, a handwritten note. Suddenly it is no longer guiding movement. It is preserving a version of yourself.
