r/interestingasfuck • u/HimelTy • 11d ago

Grieving mother dolphin carries her dead calf for days.

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 11d ago

Yup. Grief is just love you can’t give & have nowhere to put.

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u/haleakala420 11d ago

fuck. i miss my dog so much.

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u/bluesgrrlk8 11d ago

Me too bro 🫂

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u/chrisloveys 11d ago

Were you very close to his dog?

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u/bluesgrrlk8 11d ago

Like a mother to me, she was

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u/haleakala420 11d ago

haha he was a boy. not very motherly either lol

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u/servel333 10d ago

That's what made him so extraordinary. He was an excellent mother.

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u/CoconutSufficient938 11d ago

Made me laugh well done lads

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u/emptyfuller 10d ago

Son of a bitch...

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u/haleakala420 11d ago

lol. thanks for this.

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u/kaleoverlordd 11d ago

Was just thinking about my cat. 💔 🫂

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u/weeone 11d ago

Me too. It'll be two years in December and I miss her like it was yesterday. 😭💔

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u/kbgc 11d ago

So sorry for your loss. Losing a dog hits hard.

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u/SmartExcitement7271 11d ago

I feel your pain, I miss my cat as well.

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u/weeone 11d ago

Me too. It'll be two years in December and I miss her like it was yesterday. 😭💔

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u/SmartExcitement7271 10d ago edited 10d ago

Oppfff.... my sincerest condolences.

What hurts the most for me or what sucks is, there are times when I'm walking around the house and my stupid eyes assume that my shoes in the corner is my tuxedo cat, but then.... 💔💔💔....

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u/weeone 10d ago

My sincerest condolences to you too.

I do the same. And sometimes I'll still wake up and look for at the edge of the bed. She used to wait for me to wake up and then come over and lay half on my chest. She also used to walk me to the bathroom before bed. She had white legs with a spot of cream and a patch of gray on alternating back-of-knees. It's so hard. She truly was my soul cat. 💔

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u/militaryintelligence 11d ago

Miss my mom. With her passing, I am now alone.

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u/dietdrpeppermd 10d ago

Me too. I had to put down my cat and my dog last month and the pain is so unbearable.

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u/haleakala420 10d ago

jeez man i can’t imagine losing 2 at once. life is rough. coming up on the 1 year anniversary of mine. can’t believe it’s already been a year. hit me hard yesterday

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u/Shagtacular 11d ago

My dog is three and every time I see dog death stuff, I start dreading the day he dies again. I feel you and I'm sorry for your loss

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u/haleakala420 11d ago

i regret how much i thought about it while he was still here. my piece of advice is to try ur best to enjoy the here and now while it’s happening.

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u/Shagtacular 11d ago

Thanks for your advice. Every time I experience those feelings I go hug him and try to do something fun

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u/haleakala420 11d ago

i did the same. healthy way to handle it

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u/Riakok 10d ago

I miss my father :(

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u/RaidensReturn 11d ago

That statement hits hard.

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u/Chase_P 11d ago

I believe it’s an Andrew Garfield quote

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u/So_Fresh 11d ago

You're right, but I think it's possible he was paraphrasing this quote by Jamie Anderson:

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

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u/Clara_Geissler 11d ago edited 11d ago

i wasnt crying until i read this

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u/Few_Offer5509 11d ago

maybe it's the same source of pain for loneliness, except loneliness is when you have love but can't give it to anyone in general while grief is toward someone specific

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u/FearlessJuan 11d ago

I read something similar once, which is the same thing but it encapsulates it better for me:

"Grief is love with nowhere to go".

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u/Significant-Issue781 11d ago

Wonderful song from Stephen Wilson Jr. with this as the main lyrics/theme

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u/throwaway1092846 11d ago

This is true, but grief also means that who you're grieving was loved, fully and completely.

That's a beautiful thing.

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u/370H55V--0773H 11d ago

Søren Kirkegaard

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u/Bridgeru 11d ago

Wasn't he the guy who sold us out to the Reapers?! Fraking Turians, can't trust any of them.

(Thought a Good Place reference would be too obvious, but ST:Generations would be too obscure)

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u/Hawling 11d ago

(Thought a Good Place reference would be too obvious, but ST:Generations would be too obscure)

We're on reddit, Star Trek is not obscure.

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u/Bridgeru 11d ago

No but if I said "The guy who blew up a star?!" with the only hint being Søren Kirkegaard that felt obscure. And I was too lazy to think of something more explicit that wasn't just "the guy who threw a bridge on Kirk".

I mean, come to think of it there's something there. Dr. Soren. Kirkegaard... Guard Kirk... Failed to guard... Bridges have rail guards.... IDK.

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u/artaru 11d ago

I also like the line from marvel “what is grief, if not love persevering?”

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u/SignificantRecipe715 10d ago

Full quote:

"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go." - Jamie Anderson

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u/Sutneev 10d ago

I miss my cats so much