poetrygarden

  The time comes in all our lives when we have to look at our lives and decide wether or not we can carry on doing what ever it is we do. I have always been passionate about animals and love being surrounded by them and have spent most of my life careing for them but there came a time when i had to realize that i could not take on any more and i decided to look after the ones i had to the end and keep it down to one dog, sense prevailed.  But i am not so happy as when i was surrounded by dogs,horses,goats,rabbits, whatever.  But we have to think of the animals, it is seven days a week  work if we look after them properly and its much harder as we get older to give them our best when we are struggling with the cold weather and we are not as strong as we were.  I would do it all over again tomorrow but i know it would not be fair it would bring me nothing but more grief.

  How do we know when its time to quit, we do not ,we only have our own judgement.  When we are struggling with pain every day we ask ourselves if we can still give all we should to the project and if not its time to slow down and draw it to a close or end up with a big mess on our hands that some body else will end up having to sort out for us.

  Time perhaps to look for some where smaller to live, some thing easier to look after, then hopefully you will be able to carry on independantly for a good few years longer, its up to you but if you do not make the decisions your independants will be lost as some one will.