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sad entry.. do not read if you don't want to be ( sad.. )

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Death is a very conflicted thing.
It's hard to find a good reason for the loss it brings, when faced with it. When someone is suffering, we know it is a bridge away from the discomfort, but that positivity is almost always met with the negative longing.. of an explanation of why this point ever has to come.

Love is a sharing thing.
It tends to involve a wanting to share your joys and experiences with another.
So often formerly in the paces we go through every day, we stop and think of kitty quite often, wondering if he would've enjoyed what we're doing at the moment... or what scraps to bring home from our dinners that he would relish...
Walking around the house, looking for that familiar face coming around the corner, to ask for some running water in the sink, or some ice cubes in his dish, or to headbutt our hand in asking for scritches...

And so much more.

And all of this can't discount the other very special kitties we've had... by time does steal a bit of the vividness of those memories. They must be stoked and cultivated from time to time, as they so deserve.

Perhaps the most extraordinarily sweet tributes I have ever seen, depicting the love for a lost friend, is this.....



Is it worth it? There are some that say they'd rather never even have a love so strong, for the pain it can bring when it goes.
But the wisdom of yesteryear can be quoted as saying, it's far better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all.....

- entry backdated, to keep from dragging friend's list pages into too much of this, but here for those who don't mind stepping back into the topic, still on our minds at the eagle's nest -