Hi David,
I find this hard to believe though, if you say it's so, I guess I must
accept you at your word. If someone suggested that they knew how I
felt because of the death of a dog I believe I should probably
endeavor to lose that persons phone number and never again allow them
to sully my world.
It is a wonder to me though. In my life I have lost loved ones and I
have lost pets. The loss (of anything one holds dear) is painful by
degrees. Yet, for myself, I must say that there is a void in my life
where each of the people I have loved and lost rightly fit.
"Some holes you don't fill".
That's not to say that my life is an agony of grief over the loss but
that, occasionally, I stumble across a void in whom I am become. The
pain of loss is cathartic and the psyche actually grows but there are
still the missing parts.
No other loss has this same effect. Not betrayal of love. Death of
love. Loss of financial security. All of them pale behind this common
event.
I was wandering down Queen Street, in the City of London, today and
the thought intruded that not one of the people there would be alive
in 100 years, 'till I say a woman with a baby and though "you might
make it kid". So very many holes...
As I say, I find it hard to imagine that there are people who manage
to fill these voids. Or that such voids might be created by the loss
of a pet.
Just my thoughts upon what you had written. You've managed to "jolt"
my world... I guess I need time to assimilate that it isn't the same
for everyone.
slainte,
Ian
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:14:49 +0000, you wrote:
>Ian- I think I failed to make my point, so I'll try again. My point
>wasn't that budgies and humans have the same level of sacredness, but
>
>that, in my world view, they are both sacred creations (well, I'm
>assuming that budgies are a sacred creation...maybe I should say dog
>instead of budgie)
>
>If someone came up to me and said that they knew how I felt about the
>
>loss of my partner because their dog had dies, I would believethat
>they might have an inkling as to how I felt, but dogs and humans are
>not equal (in my world view)
>
>Do I think dogs are sacred? yep. AS sacred as people? nope. I
>think there are degrees of sacredness. This is based upon my belief
>that everything that exists is a creation of God/Universal
>Force/What-have-you (insert your own spiritual bent).
>
>Thanks
>
>Shalom
>
>David Lind
>Trickster@pos
>
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