the middle dog

Everyone wants to boast about their many accomplishments. Either that or they are pointing out the under dogs of this life. But I wonder if they ever think about the middle dog. I’m talking about the one who learned a lot from someones mistakes. Sadly though only faintly caught just a miniscule glimpses of how to be successful. Solely to believe that the world was waiting for them. With a kind heart, a fool.....I mean full head of Ideas and dreams, and enough ambition followed by faith. They crossed the threshold of indignation to a fantasy land. As fast as they could think that the world was waiting for them, it all collapsed in around them. If you’ve ever seen someone who was hit with disaster, how they stand frozen and confused, well it’s like when you see a dear at night looking back at you over the dashboard of your car, only to realize that it is frozen in fear of the strange lights coming right for it. But once it gets hit and falls to the ground from the blow, and in shock of all the pain that it has just experienced, it lies there for a moment. As you look to your rear view and side mirrors to see that it gets up and dashes off into the woods. you might say to your self “oh, wow well maybe it will be ok after all”. When in truth the animal goes into the woods maybe to survive as it licks its wonds, but definitely never to be the same again. It lives on as just a shell of its former self.