Wednesday, October 9, 2013

When enough is enough

The prompt: When enough is enough
A Writer's Book of Days, Judy Reeves

When a casserole that "serves 8" is wiped out by 2, enough is enough.
When I  fall asleep at my laptop at 1:00 a.m., enough is enough.
When I have copied enough material from the internet to fill 150 file folders (conservatively),
enough is enough.
When my wife eats a bag of 3 Musketeers "one at a time" in a day, enough is enough.
When I have books stacked on books until the bookcase is bowing, when I have books stacked on the floor so that I can no longer walk through my office safely, when books fill the shelves in two bedroom closets, and then I check out 4 more from the library and order 3 from Amazon, enough is enough.
When I haven't showered or shaved in 3 days "because I am retired," enough is enough.
When I fall asleep driving, waking as I smash through a roadside mail box, then enough sleep was not enough.
When I start admitting these things publicly, enough is enough.

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