why do people get dogs if they know they're gonna die eventually? at least with a person there's a chance they'll outlive you. even with people who pained me deeply when they left, leaving me feeling stupid and helpless, i can't say i regret having grown close to them (even if i can say a lot of other bitter things). i'm dealing with a lot of grief from this kind of thing right now but i'm still thinking to myself 'at least we had the times we did.' plenty of fish in the sea and shit