do you want to explore museums, old churches and hidden antique shops with me, yes or no
In all seriousness, if anyone reading this lives in north/central Florida and likes these ideas, hit me up
Speaking of fictional crushes: it didn’t help my doubts about my first relationship that my girlfriend at the time strongly identified with Annabeth Chase and I thought Annabeth was annoying and Percy would be better off with either Rachel Elizabeth Dare or Calypso
Your daily dose of cat memes
In one of my favorite dreams I ever had, a wolf was about to attack my parakeet Crackers, so I did the logical thing and turned into a lion and fought off the wolf
When I have a family someday, I take seriously my responsibility to defend them from dangers, so hopefully that dream prepared me well and the shapeshift-into-a-lion trick works just as smoothly in reality
"That's not my mom/grandmother/dad/grandfather, etc."
I promise you it is. They've been altered by disease, but it didn't erase their identity. They still have many of the same personality traits and interests and memories that they always had, and even the parts that have changed can still be worth knowing. There are those who only know them as they are now, and they can still find them funny and fascinating and likable and endearing, and you don't want to miss out on this part of their life.
"I don't want to remember them like this."
So you're admitting your love of them is conditional? That there's a certain point that disease or disability can bring them to where you no longer wish to know them? Their decline may be difficult to watch, but you can't abandon them to deal with it alone. If you really love them, you can love them through every point of their life. Don't let fear cast out love.
