Circumstances being different

Every morning I read

 page from the

Book of Positive Tuba Affirmations.

***

“Nobody plays the tuba like you do.”

I say to myself.

“You are the greatest tuba player

in the history of the universe.”

***

Some days, though,

I don’t know why

I waste my time.

***

I don’t play the tuba.

And reading it just

makes me sad about

what I might have been.