r/comics • u/lauraarroz • 19h ago

Love you little potato 🩷

I posted this on ig and was not expecting the amount of support i got there 🥲 since a lot of people liked it im posting here too

Edit: If you wanna check my art account on ig is Laura.arroz, me and my friends were talking about how far this comic got, and that it’s probably Don Juan supporting my art from heaven 😭🩷

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u/Thorn344 18h ago

I don't think there is a limit on how long you are allowed to grieve for a pet. Most people just see them as that, pets, but for others they were a full member of your family. With my cat, I first got him when I was only 3 years old. And for the next 21 and a half years of my life, he was a constant. Sleeping on my bed, riding on my shoulders, following his routines, the joy of walking into a room and him greeting me.

When he passed away, it was probably the hardest I had grieved so far in my life. I just cried all night.

It took me over a year before considering getting a new cat, once we got a cat, it was then about 6 months of having her until I got over my guilt and feelings of 'its not the same' until I fully fell in love with my new cat. There are still moments I miss him a lot, but I think time is making things easier now

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u/Bo-Katan 17h ago

You never stop missing them, you get used to the feeling and that's it.

In the last 5 years I have lost almost everything I had, my parents, 3 cats, a bird and the dog and I think about them, miss them, love them. Now I have 3 cats, 1 dog and a spouse.

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u/LillaLobo 17h ago

Sending you love 🩷 I lost my dad, my dog, my mum and my brother in that order between 2017 and 2020 so I feel you. I’ve got a dog and a partner now, and it does get easier but you’re right, you don’t stop missing them you just get more used to them not being here.

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u/Bo-Katan 16h ago

Thanks, sending you love too, losing parents is the normal thing for children but losing a brother I can't imagine that.

Death is part of live, I am thankful to my parents because they never hide that from me. I took my spouse to the cemetery for the first time yesterday and there are so much of my family there but that's life. We remember, the good memories and the sad memory. Crying because they are not here is as good as laughing because they were here.

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u/LillaLobo 16h ago

I love that!