Shootin' it Straight - Double Ought

You could cut that donut in that old man's field and likely never get caught but you shouldn't. That shiny new sports car you want requires just a tad more of a down payment than you anticipated. You can sell grandpa's old Remington and make it easily but you better find another way. When you are out enjoying nature you could easily destroy that rock face with rattle can graffiti but you ought not to. Mama's cookbooks could easily be boxed off to Goodwill to clear space for that new thing but you might hang on to them for a while longer. A weekend out with the guys might make you skip a camping trip with your woodsman of an uncle but you ought not to skip that one.

 There is many a pitfall that awaits a man and old age doesn't open ones eyes to all the mistakes but it sure adds a little clarity. There is certain things you just shouldn't do even though you can. Many choices you can make in life will leave you with a empty corner of your soul. You may come to realize that that sage old advice from a elder holds some weight. While no legal ramifications come from many decisions we make, regrets aren't so forgiving. Your mom's old weathered Bible ought not to end up chewed on by mice abandoned in the storage shed. Your old man's Stevens 94 don't belong in a pawn shop waiting on new owners, holding all it's stories for the next man. You may have the opportunity to bring that woman home for selfish opportunity but you ought not to. The corner of the family farm may bring top dollar to the new liquor store going up but it ought not to. You could easily take advantage of that young man on that Case knife he's been bug eyed over but it'll serve you well not to. You can speak those words in anger to the old man struggling with his wallet in the checkout as he delays your morning rush, but it's best you bight your tongue. You can vote along with the neighborhood to let them pave over Tom's old dirt farm road for convenience but you shouldn't. 

 Some things are worth a second or third thought. Certian things are worth the pause to reflect. Some things can't be undone. Preservation and consideration would behove us all. It's comes so easily to us in a time of haste to make rash decisions that we may regret down the road. The world will present us with enough unavoidable pitfalls as is, we need not make our own. There is many things we have the ability and opportunity to do that just ain't right. I've always had a old sentimental soul but even so in younger years I've don't things I should've in retrospect. I spend more and more of my time in this next half century trying to do all I ought to.