I am back again, I guess when i get thinking, things begin to start burning up? Well, here is some food for thought. When we choose to have children, we inconvenience not only ourselves but the planet too, not to be forgotten, everyone else who is trying also to find their own private little space. Look at the overcrowded countries. We expect for it to support us, in every selfish way we want for ourselves AND our children, the earth will take care of itself, that is the nature of things, but when do we stop and think about what we are doing to it, and what can we give back? How many of us really take a journey deep into ourselves and ask why do we do the things we do/make the decisions that we do? This seems off the original subject but it is not far from it. It is all about being inconvenienced. The animals man has deemed to domesticate, cannot fend for themselves in the wild as the ones who were taught by their natural mothers to hunt for their own food and prepare their own shelter, that is also why we are given parents, to learn from them. What about the children that are dumped on society, or even their grandparents ( i have a classic example right next door) and also a very good ...customer/friend who is now raising her grandchildren. Unfortunately our society has taught us, the" human animal", that everything is disposable. We are not responsible for our actions? OR ARE WE? We don't have to think, we only have to act? I myself have a number of those cast off (unwanteds) ferrets because they were an inconvenience? i do not get donations or otherwise for their care. I am not asking for money either, i have taken on the responsibility to care for them, myself, and i WILL work for the income to take care of their medical/food etc. I know many of you who do the same. Look at the Humane Society...once again, animals, cast off because they were an inconvenience to the lifestyle? I love everyone one of these furred children of mine, from the ones i have taken home from the petstore on my own, to the ones who were surrendered to me. I will mourn their loss as they leave me, lest i pass before them, and i WILL and DO today, look forward to the day, i breath my last breath, so i can once again see, those that have crossed before me. My furniture is only an extension of myself, you see it in the vehicles that we buy, the clothes that we wear THAT INCLUDES JEWELRY , and the conversations we have with others. (VANITY?) probably. I guess, by the time i had reached 50 i had matured some? What does the indian legend say about what happens when we pass, how the animals will judge us, as we enter... ? I think i am done now, but i don't know for sure. regards donna/eppys mommy [Posted in FML issue 3868]