Don't Eat the Rotten Tomatoes
Our garden this year has delivered up many tomatoes, the last of which we are
storing in the garage. Each day my wife selects one of the tomatoes for my
lunch. Being of a saving sort, she carefully selects the one that is apt to
spoil first and places it in my lunch bag. I am writing this while
contemplating the barely edible fruit of our labors. It has occurred to me that
tomorrow another tomato will have progressed to this same state of edibility
and if the decay rate is uniform, it appears as though I will have one barely
edible tomato for lunch each day from now until Thanksgiving.
I've decided. Tonight, I will slip out to the garage and eliminate the two
worst looking tomatoes of the lot, and hence assure myself of finer fruit from
now until two days before Thanksgiving.
Too often in life we tend to lose the marvelous fruits of our labors by fooling
around trying to salvage a small portion of the total. When we finally get
around to what could have been top quality, we find ourselves two days too
late.
Kids know enough to do things when the idea is ripe, but we adults are too
mature. We need the courage and good sense to pass up some things to get to
the better things in life.
Clifford Allan Long
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