A dog's life

1. My life only lasts 10-15 years. Any seperation from you means sorrow, please think about that before you get me.

2. Allow me the time to understand what it is you ask of me.

3. Make me trusting, you are all my life.

4. Don't be mad at me for long at a time, don't lock me away as a punishment...

5. You have your work, your amusements, your friends... I only have you.

6. Talk to me, eventhough I don't understand your words, then I understand when your voice is about me.

7. Do you know that I never forget how people treat me?

8. Before you hit me, remember my jaws can easily crush your hand, but I don't make use of that strength.

9. When you get irritated with me because you are in a hurry, then think about that I might have a bellyache, been lying too long in the sun or maybe I'm tired or sad.

10. Take good care of me when I get old, you too will get old someday.

11. Make sure my fur is always brushed, nice and neat - I can't do it myself.

12. If you follow these dog pleas, you'll get the world's most happy dog.

Golden dust!

Remember this man?

I wrote about him not so long ago ( here )
The man in the picture is Anders Fogh Rasmussen, prime minister of Denmark.
Also in his own words a good friend of George W. Bush, president of the USA.

Good for you Fogh!

Now to the point, before the election in November, Fogh had already been Prime Minister for quite a while. And the results of that were clear to anybody - or so I thought!

Prices had gone up, quality had gone down, welfare had taken a drastic step down, there were more rich people but there were also more poor people.
All I have to say is, 90.000 children living in poverty in a country with just over 6mil people, that claim to be one of the richest countries in the world, THAT is not good enough!

It's been just around 2 months since the dude in the picture was elected to stay Prime Minister, and already people are wondering...

Why are prices on meat going up 50%? Why are prices on milk going up 25%? Prices on stamps 13 cents? (US dollars)
Why do the unemployed get less benefit?
Why do parents not get more child benefit?
And so on and so on...

Danes are paying between 37 and 63% in income tax and 25% in VAT.

Where has all the money gone you ask? In the pockets of the politicians and the rich people. That's where the money has gone.

Have they learnt - the people that voted to stick with the current government?
Doubtful.

It's one big price party. Prices on products go up. Soon the salaries will go up to compensate for the prices. And then the prices will go up once again because... well, people can afford it...

I am so sorry

There's a knot in my stomach, a knot of emotions and worries, it's been there since I was a child, sometimes it bothers me alot, sometimes I don't feel it at all.

Now is one of the times where I feel it all the time.
It's cocktail of different emotions, but the two major ingredients are worry and guilt, particularly the latter.

Let me tell you what guilt is, guilt is not forgetting to pay a bill, guilt is not forgetting someones birthday or not going to the wedding of a really good friend. It isn't even the feeling you get when you've called someone something nasty and then regret it, but they are still upset.

The true guilt, in it's purest form, is when you have hurt someone so badly that it is going to affect them for the rest of their lives.

I think I may have done just that to my best friend. Shattered his hopes and his dreams. Even his faith.

I pray to the God that he used to pray to. That things will improve for him, and quick.
It's eating me up from the inside, that I have caused so much anger and so much hurt in a person I care so much for.
He says he is still my friend, but as grateful as I am to be allowed to still call myself his friend, I fear that my presence reminds him of those shattered dreams.

I desperately hope that someday he will be able to look back and think that it wasn't so bad that things happened the way they did. That some day he might even say it was a good thing.

Not untill the day I know he is truly happy and with new hopes and dreams that are all coming true for him, not untill that day will I be able to leave the guilt behind.


How do you help someone that's feeling hurt and angry, get better, when you're the cause of all the misery? I really don't know. I try to not let the guilt get in the way of my attempts at helping... Feels like all I have right now is hope and the faith in God.

I look forward to the time where we can both enjoy a good time, together or alone. For my part without the nagging feeling of guilt. Even guilt over being happy...
How can you be happy when you've caused your best friend to be miserable?


I am so sorry...