no dog

Question:

My husband is showing me the consequences of getting a dog now; it is not a good idea and he is right; we have too many animals (4 cats); our place is very small; as a townhouse all noises are likely to bother the neighbours; the dog needs care that i may not always be able to provide; and he thinks we should wait until at least 2 of the cats die. etc. I am very pissed off, because there are very few things I can do anymore in my life, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t go to parties, I don’t have any friends; I don’t pursue a degree, I don’t want to work as a stupid typist answering to someone dumber but more of a bully than me, (as many men are); my parents constantly tell me what to do; and i have all these drug problems; basically i do not have a life and i never will; and to top it off tonight, i get bullies like Eric incapable of a kind word even on the net; basically I observe how shitty life is, that’s my life. Squiggles — …for the first time in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. — Albert Camus, L’

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