I feel a lot of empathy for animals.
more so when i was a child,
I remember yelling at a school yard of kids because they were throwing basketballs at a stick insect. The teacher came to my rescue and told the kids off and we put it in a safe spot in a tree but i could see it was bleeding and would probably die.
It was very painful.
As I've grown older I've toned it down a bit/ stopped chucking tantrums every time someone squished a bug and I thought I'd gotten a hold of my emotions
but lately I visited my families country.
I was sitting having a feast with a group of family members and I saw this lil alone emaciated puppy that had found its way there it was sitting outside the circle. I had been told not to feed it because it would be encouraged and keep hanging around the guys stone-fire-pit (tanorh) where they cook the bread and sell it and it would disrupt his business cause dogs are considered one of the filthiest animals and the puppy would end up being shot.
so I didn't but while we were all eating I just started crying and told them 'I couldn't sit here and have a feast while he sits by watching and is starving'
I couldn't help myself - my brother told me off and said that it isn't their fault and that these semi-wild/stray animals which have a bunch diseases, worms even rabies are a nuisance.
but despite me knowing all these things I couldn't stifle my tears.
usually I control and hide my feelings fairly well but yeah it was just too much for me.
The puppy was taken in by a family member and fed and looked after now whenever its mentioned my bro scolds me about it because they are poor and I guilted them into burdening themselves with the dog.
I don't want to burden and upset people but at the same time and much more strongly i want people to respect (just keeping a respectful distance sometimes.) and a sense of responsibility for domestic animals that we have bred into existence.
I don't want everyone to feel the same intense empathy I do.
but yeah Am I a hypocrit, naive, ignorant, nosy?
idk, this is how i feel.
more so when i was a child,
I remember yelling at a school yard of kids because they were throwing basketballs at a stick insect. The teacher came to my rescue and told the kids off and we put it in a safe spot in a tree but i could see it was bleeding and would probably die.
It was very painful.
As I've grown older I've toned it down a bit/ stopped chucking tantrums every time someone squished a bug and I thought I'd gotten a hold of my emotions
but lately I visited my families country.
I was sitting having a feast with a group of family members and I saw this lil alone emaciated puppy that had found its way there it was sitting outside the circle. I had been told not to feed it because it would be encouraged and keep hanging around the guys stone-fire-pit (tanorh) where they cook the bread and sell it and it would disrupt his business cause dogs are considered one of the filthiest animals and the puppy would end up being shot.
so I didn't but while we were all eating I just started crying and told them 'I couldn't sit here and have a feast while he sits by watching and is starving'
I couldn't help myself - my brother told me off and said that it isn't their fault and that these semi-wild/stray animals which have a bunch diseases, worms even rabies are a nuisance.
but despite me knowing all these things I couldn't stifle my tears.
usually I control and hide my feelings fairly well but yeah it was just too much for me.
The puppy was taken in by a family member and fed and looked after now whenever its mentioned my bro scolds me about it because they are poor and I guilted them into burdening themselves with the dog.
I don't want to burden and upset people but at the same time and much more strongly i want people to respect (just keeping a respectful distance sometimes.) and a sense of responsibility for domestic animals that we have bred into existence.
I don't want everyone to feel the same intense empathy I do.
but yeah Am I a hypocrit, naive, ignorant, nosy?
idk, this is how i feel.