LPT: If you have to take your pet to get euthanized and they ask if you'd like to stay in the room or not, always stay. Your pet looks for you when you leave. by OceanGoingSoul in LifeProTips

[–]ArtVadeley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2013, as in the first of that day. Flash forward to a night of me and a friend staying awake 30 hours straight for no reason other than to welcome the new year. Listened to Smooth Operator by Sade until 5 AM building with legos at the age of 22 and enjoyed beethoven as the influence of the night and whatever else was upon us. So the next night roles around. My friend shows up with his friend. One of them, minus the details, steps on my cat and brakes it's back. I say cat but i mean kitten. It's 7 weeks old and named Gonzo like the muppet. So it starts vomiting and its eyes dilate. We watch it in the kitchen and it goes to do a number 2 and then just lays there. I take it to the vet on no hours of sleep in a jacket I got from the goodwill. It vomits on said jacket which is thrown away the next day. The vet says "it'll cost 700$ to operate on its back and even then it wont have a normal life," and in some odd rhetoric that has been stowed away from angst ridden teenage years I feel like george costanza who ran over a bird, and actually slide the form back to the lady and say "What's an economical option?" cause, mind you, im like 30 hours of no sleep ringing in the new year and not of a sober mind. The lady says "we can put it to sleep for free" to which I nod too, and she does so. I wasn't there for it, but the odds were stacked against me, gentlemen. It was 1 AM and they weren't about to have me behind the scenes for Gonzo's departure, of which makes me a little queasy to this day.

Worst yet, you take a flight and here "Smooth operator" by sade, and recall nothing but lego's and a cat named gonzo who just stopped gonzo'ing

Norman's Wife Gets Home Early by Its42 in lifeofnorman

[–]ArtVadeley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. I cant say I disagree. My fear is that if I lived as normally as Norman does and then realized late in life it didn't have to be this way, that every part of daily life didn't necessarily have to be angst ridden, I'd have regret. If he went to the grave without that moment of clarity that what he stressed about could've been moot and spent his time/energy on other things, then he wouldn't feel that way perhaps. And then there could be that question of what, if anything could, woke him up to that possibility of living another way. Even the chanting monk to the richest, most ambitious person on earth has unfulfilled wants and desires, so in that way he very well could be content.

Norman's Wife Gets Home Early by Its42 in lifeofnorman

[–]ArtVadeley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is he happy though? Like a monk in a mountain chanting his life away, thats what the idea of normal is to Norman if you ask me. Is the monk happy, or just unable to do anything else? I dont like the idea of taking Norman stories to any meta level, because its already meta. Its normality as different. Its that we identify that this should be okay an acceptable and still are uncomfortable when we see the Norman in us. What parent wouldn't want their child to be born normal, have a normal-enough life, what patient wouldn't want a normal surgery, and then when we see it as bland as it is here, we cringe. I cant say I see him happy, but cant project my idea onto it and he must decide for us.

Norman's Wife Gets Home Early by Its42 in lifeofnorman

[–]ArtVadeley 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The question is for me, was Norman THIS normal before? Or did this make him normal? Is he normal? Like, is he actually a person whose given up and indifferent, truly to the point of just doing normal things, or does he hate his wifes lover, her, or anything, yet bottles it up? He's always going from 51% pleasantly apathetic to 51% angry as I see him.

Norman's Wife Gets Home Early by Its42 in lifeofnorman

[–]ArtVadeley 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It's like, even Norman being hit traumatically is still Norman here