I just wish all the bad memories went away...
You can't make the bad memories go away, but you can always make new good memories to look forward to.
The bad memories...
I will always remember three very specific instances...
23-09-03 21-09-03. 03-03-13. 18-03-13 18-01-13.
Raichu's death, Simba's death, and... your grandfather's death?
No that was in 2012. Can't be. Maybe another secret pet?
OBJECTION!Taylor remembered correctly the events, but apparently my keyboard is broken so I'm typing this reply with On-Screen Keyboard. (Apparently, pressing the "1 / !" button on my keyboard turns it into a 3... but then again, this keyboard
is older than 2 years.)
Also, my memory
may be a little foggy, but I'm accurate about the dates below.
21 September 2003 was the day that my first cat, Raichu, was killed by a drunk driver. I was 7 at the time. Raichu was named after the Pokémon Raichu. Raichu's parents were named Pikachu (♂) and Chikorita (♀). His siblings were Pichu (♂) and Pixie (♀), and Pixie was named after the Digimon,
Piximon. Of course, until I had Internet access I had absolutely no idea what Digimon was, aside from round circle-things being inside of packets of crisps (those things being called "
tazos" apparently). My mother initially wanted to call Raichu "Eevee", when she thought that Raichu was female (and Raichu was very unimpressed with that name). I distinctly remember that Raichu died on a Sunday. It was very,
very rainy. I used to play NES games then (of course, I didn't know what it was called, I just called it "TV-games" then). In fact, the only reason I even have those tazos are because of
Simba chips.
18
January 2013 was the day my maternal grandfather died. His funeral was on 25 January 2013, on the exact day that I was 16 years and 11 months old. The last time I saw him was sometime in 2012, after he had a heart attack. However, everyone was under the impression that it was a
stroke.
3 March 2013 was the day my second cat, Simba, was killed by a drunk driver. I remember getting so angry that I somehow caused property damage (let's just say that putting a dent in a fence and a
caravan... hurts). You can probably guess how depressed I was because of Simba's death... but thanks to several people, I got better. ... Sadly, I forgot who to thank >_<"
I only had two pets: Simba, and Raichu, and they're both cats. The other cats were all my mother's, and
not mine.
If they were mine, then my father wouldn't have given them all away to a farmer. (I'm talking about Raichu's parents and siblings.)
I'm not ever getting another pet. Otherwise I'd get too attached to them, and then something like that will happen again... and then...
more depression that may even result in... more tragic things happening (like attempted suicide)... Believe me, I actually considered it when Simba died... but thankfully,
some people (still can't remember who; I'm going to have to check the other forums I'm a member of) managed to get me to stop thinking that.
Also, I have a fear of all other animals that people consider "pets". Dogs? Scared of them. Birds? Scared of them. Hamsters? Scared of them. Yes. I'm scared of
hamsters.
... And a few other instances too, like 13-02-09 but that one's not very important
... What happened on 13 February 2009?
I got my first ever detention at school. Had to stay there until 4:00 PM [GMT+2], instead of the usual 1:00 PM [GMT+2].
Gansbaai's primary school usually came out at 1 PM on a Friday, but those who got detention had to stay until 4 PM.
And guess what?
I actually liked it. Why? Because mathematics. I used to like it back then. Finished the sums in about an hour's time. (And those were difficult sums, I think those were 8
th grade mathematics. And I was in seventh grade. Didn't even learn about exponents and such.)
... Come to think of it... 13 February 2009 was on a Friday, so... it was Friday the 13
th.
Why, you may ask, did I get a detention?
Well, one or two weeks before that Friday, was a sport day.
In other words, an entire school day that was used solely for sports.
And since there was no school work to be done, I stayed at home.
So there.
...
I ought to start up a well for these things >_<"