My dog, my mum, and my music

What is the most noble thing to do?

Love strengthens when souls weaken

My mum and my Abu are here. The fragility of their existences is ever present on my mind. But they are here. This is a special time. Because they are here.

Would it have been better not to have had family at all?

Life need not have been as hard nor as complicated, had I just had had parents who knew how to enjoy life, who had only wanted for me to do the same.

Annie

I hoped his dog was at home, whilst he was out to the shops, like had been the case another time.

Performing parts

The age difference between myself and them is nowhere near as great as the difference there's been between my and my parents' ages, and yet I feel protective, encouraging, and affectionate about them, I feel parental about them, in a way that I'm now realising that my parents - likely merely due to not having the ability to do so - never felt about me.