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When your kids are allergic to your beloved pet...
So, this is not my problem but rather a hypthetical question. Not quite sure this should be here but relocate the post if you think it's not right here.
So, I don't have kids, yet, I like to think, but I'd like kids sometime soon, oh in the next 5 years or so. I was talking to a friend recently about the problem of pets and kids. Ok lots of people have kids and pets together, but what if your kid is totally allergic to (in my case) cats?
It would kill me to give my babies away (meaning my cats), so what can you do? Has anyone had to make the choice? It may sound weird (and of course you'll say "oh you haven't had kids so that's why you think that"), but I think I'd be resentful if I had to give away my beloved pets who have been like my family for years, and always given me unconditional love and companionship. Is this silly of me?
I also hate the way pets seem to be, more and more, treated as disposable nowadays and I think it's so cruel to abandon or give away animals like they're just objects you own.....I'd never forgive myself for doing it.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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