Extraction

My tooth hurts. The thing about procrastinating is eventually lambs turn into lions, with sharp fangs and fire in their nostrils, it’s a cruel truth. You vow to do better but you never have before so why start now. Your father thinks maybe it’s too late to teach himself new tricks but you wonder if he doesn’t have 20 years left in him and what a life that would be to not have made a change. The best time to plant a tree might have been yesterday but the second best is today and today is the only time you can do anything about. You push the tooth to see if it’s a phantom pain, but they never are. It was a beautiful spring day out there today but you won’t believe it till it sticks around.

It isn’t trust issues if it’s just being wise from experience, someone says. You’ve never been more determined to rewrite the page.