Evaluation
By Lori Miller

When you sit and evaluate everything, you realize that there’s nothing to lose…again.
You carelessly put all that’s good on the back burner and expect it to wait for you forever.
Then one day you go to retrieve it and find that it’s gone.
Realizing what it meant to you…too late. You panic and try to find it.
Knowing that it’s no one’s fault but your own, you wonder why you didn’t hold on to it and treasure it.
Obviously you never thought that it was important or special because you let it fly out the window.
Realize that for once in your life, you’ve screwed up and you can’t repair it no matter how hard you try.
Stop living your life like you don’t care because one day you’ll wake up and realize there’s no one and nothing there.

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