Planned Nonobsolescence

Planned non-obsolescence is when you pour from a nearly empty carton with unusual reserve so as not to be the one who drank the last of the milk. When you push in your trash so it squeezes into the eight-gallon white liner with the faintest hint of a squint-eyed possibility that someone else might possibly squeeze in just one more thing after you, so you are not that one who didn't bother to help clear out our trash containers leaving pristine liners for all of us. When you don't prepare a will because you weren't planning to need one. When you continue to take one more possibly last breath, one more last compassionate project, one more than merely civil relationship, despite having considered all the reasons not to bother listening to what and whom threatens to obsolete you.