butterflyuk

The dog has been ill. She has been on various drugs for arthritis including a strong pain killer for a couple of years. One of the side-effect of the pain killer is that the lining of stomach gets damaged. Now she is prescribed Zantac for her tummy. All this is pretty expensive but money is nothing compared to the quality of life, even for an animal. I am not too keen on giving her so many medicines so I tried to cut down but she has been sick many times during the last week. I had to take her back to the Vet.

She started shaking like a leaf from the moment we entered the car park and didn’t stop until we came out after spending £235. We stopped at a local playing field/park on the way back. We were having a nice walk and I was in my day dreaming mode. My thinking time is the dog walk time. The only time I clear my head is when I am walking the dog. The morning walk is manic because I am trying to do everything before going to work but the evening one is when it is the time just for us.

We weren’t doing anything that affected anyone else. The dog was mooching around, not annoying anyone. She wasn’t fouling the park or anything bad. Then I heard a shout and a football thrown in our direction. Some young men were playing football. I presumed they shouted for the ball so I kicked it in the direction of the man coming towards us and he even said thanks. After that we kept on walking to the end and back. All this time I wasn’t taking anything in from all the shouts and words coming from the football players.

As we passed them again I heard the abusive remarks being shouted at me. At first I wasn’t too sure and thought it was their own talk but then I realised that they were calling me names. They kicked the ball so hard towards the dog that it could have hurt her if it had hit her. I didn’t know them, I didn’t do anything wrong to them, I was minding my own business, I was actually nice to them then why on the earth they wanted to interfere with my peace? I couldn’t decide whether to go and talk to them to find out what their problem was or just ignore them. I was not in a mood to talk or argue. I said to myself that I was better than them in every way – intellectually, spiritually, socially, materialistically so I just ignored them.

Can anyone tell me what could be going in their collective tiny minds? Why would any one go out to harass someone not even bothering them? If this is the young mind that is going to shoulder the strength and future of the country then God help us!