This new year, I would love to be able to write to you about how wonderful it is to have a pet while you are well. It would be great to explain the illusion that every day, even if you’ve only left the house for a few hours, every time you come back home, between the jumps and the joy, your dog is assuming you’re out to get him. He hadn’t seen you in years.
I want nothing more than to tell you how animals relate to children And if you have children, how they naturally grow up with important values such as generosity or loyalty and learn to share games and toys more easily with them. Or also, if you’re older, explain how dogs and cats can help you overcome loneliness, find shelter and calm, in things as simple as feeling their bodies next to you.
Obviously, animals are very special. They even manage to make us remember the history of many events in our lives by remembering that dog or cat that lived with us at that time. For this reason, it would be very nice and emotional to be able to talk about the deep and intense sadness that each of us feels because of all the experiences we have had with them, without hesitation and without lying. Every time any of our animals have exhausted their short life cycle and are left by us forever.
It would be great to be able to do that, yes, but for now it will be impossible. Maybe one day, but not this year, among other things, because during this year, I fear that thousands of stories will resurface that will keep us from doing that. All will undoubtedly have wild and friendly animals as true heroes, and inevitably, like many other friends years ago, they will directly experience this abuse and abandonment. They will reoccupy all our animalistic thoughts throughout 2023.