Idiocracy used to be a dark comedy. Now it's a documentary.

Family can mean a lot of things. Blood doesn't mean anything to me. My family is my friends and my cats, they mean everything to me

My ego was so big when I was younger I thought I could never be fired and the company would suffer if I were to quit. A friend of mine asked me "has a company ever gone out of business because you were gone??" Slapped me back to reality. Thank you Tom 😊

Sometimes people have to hit their rock bottom before they want help. For some, rock bottom becomes a comfort and they never will want to be helped. At that point, just accept that's how they want to live. Nothing much more you can do about it, other than leave.

Good for you. Stay strong

No, but you can log off

The heart has a long memory, and falling in love twice is like trying to rewrite a tale that has already been told.

Moral of the story: don't work hard unless there's something in it for you. And don't expect others to work hard.

Didn't Picard say something along the lines of this? That you can make no mistakes and still lose and that's just life?

They will sooner throw you under the bus and make you wish you were never born before they ever admit to doing you wrong.

Yeah I think this is one of the saddest realizations, that love isn't enough. Really sucks to get there

The people that were supposed to love me the most treated me like s**t. Love isn't always where you'd expect it to be.

It’s like the most dangerous Lifetime show

"I'm paying for this..." Whenever I hear this, I think of manipulation and exploitation. Doesn't matter the context. When people say s**t like that all consideration for the human aspect has gone out the window.

Life is unfair. Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people.

oh yeah, I let those dreams die a long time ago. If it happens, then cool. but I'm not getting my hopes up. Yay America :)

I am so very sorry and I wish you strength and peace. Doggos are truly the best.

Let her go. It's the most humane thing to do. My mom had recently put her ailing her horse down because she couldn't see him surviving another winter. Might not have lived to see fall, anyways. He lived a good, happy life. It was hard on my mom but it would have been harder seeing her horse suffer and that guilt would have stuck with her for the rest of her life.

My lab is 14 and I don't know how I'm going to make it without him. He's been there since I was a child and has helped me through all of my struggles. I don't think I'm in a place where I can lose him, but I know his time is soon. I really wish dogs lived so much longer.

In the end you will know when it's right. Our loved pets unlike humans with medical care, don't have to go through it all, we can set them free before the extreme end of life symptoms occur. The fact that you are talking with the vet about it is actually beautiful. Whether you can face it or not now, at the time you will because you are preparing. I'm so very sorry for your situation 💔❤️

If only pets had longer life expectancies! It's just so heart-wrenching.

I am in the same boat with my cat. We have been buddies for almost 20 years. He sleeps with me at night and he saved me from a depression so deep I didn't think I'd survive it. I work from home and take breaks just to lay down on the bed so we can cuttle. I know the day will come, and that dread is ruining these last few moments of happiness.

Nobody likes to let go BUT you don't want others to decide for you when it's your time, do you? When our pets suffer from age, it is time for us to carry them gently to the beginning of the rainbow bridge but they have to cross over alone and now......I gotta change my contact lenses, my fellow pandas...

I have always wished our pets lived longer. I have always had pets, and I love them all dearly, but watching them grow old and infirm, and then that last trip to the vet, even when I knew it was coming and even planned for it, still tears my heart to shreds, every single time. Yet, along comes another four-legged friend in need of rescue, and I start the whole process over again. I am such a sucker for punishment. But I would never not rescue and adopt an animal in need that crossed my path. I couldn’t bear knowing I might have been the only person who could’ve saved their life by rescuing them but didn’t do it, and maybe they died later that day. No, I just scoop them up and make them members of my family.

I have an old doggo that is having more trouble now. I know there will be a day, sooner rather than later that we will be dog-less. Trying not to get my keyboard wet now...

If she is eating and dinking water and not in pain, do nothing. My cat has lost 4 lbs. She weighed 11 and now 7, but she is still active, eating and drinking and not in pain, but she is 16 years old and I will not put her down until she tells me to, and she will. We communicate.

I recently had to put my best friend down. He was a cat named Einstein and he was the best. I had a mobile service come to the house so he could just go to sleep in my arms. It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, bar none. But it was also one of the best things I've ever done in my life. I got to hold him calmly, him purring and happy because we were having some quality one on one. He died knowing I love him, he died at home so he didn't have the freaking stress that comes with a car ride to the vets, without the fear of what is happening and why. As expensive as it was I would happily spend a hundred times that to have him alive again.....

Loving her will be the reason you let her go.

So much love going out to you.

5 weeks today since we had to send our doggo to whatever is on the otherside. 13 years of love, fun, being a part of everything in our life. Such a loyal dog who embraced our 2 boys when they were born. Worst part is that her legs went and she couldn't stand up but mentally she was still the same dog. I'll never forget lying outside snuggling your ears and talking to you Dobe with the sun on our backs, birds singing as you took your last breath in our garden. Miss you Dobe

😭

This hurts so much. It's been almost a year and my heart still cries. I found her towel mixed in with the laundry today...

Have you gotten a second or even third opinion from other vets? If it's nothing serious than you can try giving a higher protein diet with toppers or maybe something like Dyne dog supplement. I would ask a vet about it first. I was just reading about older dogs who had trouble keeping weight on a few days ago.

You can do everything right and still end up in the wrong place. It's not your fault all the time.

Yeah, probably. Me worrying about this exact thing is what causes me to stop talking to them in the first place.

Well, you could be born rich, that's something. /sarc, because it's needed these days.

I know this, but it still sucks when it's someone you really wish would be proud of you, such as a parent. But still, in the end it just hurts more to keep trying to get the validation they aren't willing to give.

This f*cking terrifies me. One of my biggest fears in life is people just leaving because they can. And people have done it before. This keeps me up at night and makes me question every relationship. I know it's true but it hurts so much to be abandoned by someone you care about.

This is the hardest lesson to learn...that' it's not your fault.

It's always harsh. I lost being able to do a lot of things from illness. Life can be so cruel 😔

You're not alone.

I am thought of as the "mother of the group", when someone has a problem i want to do everything in my power to save them. But I can't. Because they don't want to be saved, yet i feel responsible. You are your own person with your own emotions, they need to figure it out for themselves.

Right, so where can I get executed?

No, that applies to everybody, not just a third of us.

Very well put, absolutely correct.

Not even in my 20s but I can relate

I demand a restart, so I won't make the same mistakes I did in my 20s

They may love you differently, but that doesn't mean less.

I let my thoughts and schedule push those people away. Luckily I've managed to keep a few alive but a lot have died

The risk, and possible pain is usually worth it. Don't be afraid to love, it leads to a lonely and bitter life.

It was Christmas a few years after my mom died. A friend took me to see "torch song trilogy". There was a scene near the end where the recently widowed mother comforts her newly widowed son. You may appreciate too. ..."Give yourself time, Arnold. It gets better... But, Arnold, it never goes away. You can work longer hours, adopt a son, fight with me, whatever... it'll still be there. But that's all right, it becomes a part of you, like learning to wear a ring or a pair of eyeglasses. You get used to it. And that's good. It's good, because it makes sure you don't forget. You don't want to forget him, do you?”

Right, no one can afford it anymore. Even renting sucks

Losing years to it currently. Things change though, constantly. Hopefully for the better