Sobbing since 6am because humans are horrible

[inkzooka]

Okay I'm probably BU but I decided to listen to Space Doggity again and started reading stuff about Laika and I'm just HORRENDOUSLY angry at the people who did this to her and how scared she must have been and how alone she must have been when she died :(

I have 0 maternal instinct for babies but all I want to do is cuddle that poor dog who died terrified and alone in space.

I'm gonna do some tribute art but I'm just so sad and I don't really know WHY this has hit me so hard.

There's so much to feel sad about, sometimes one incident can encapsulate a lot more than just itself, iyswim.

This OP has the whiff of first world privilege.

Whataboutery is annoying, but having worked in third world and war torn countries, seen the effects of suicide bombings, seen innocent people with their hands torn off from a bomb blast, seen old Japanese women sobbing at the Hiroshima museum, hearing the childish lullaby that was playing in the school when the bomb struck Hiroshima, and then to see someone cry about a dog that probably fell unconscious in space before dying, does make me

Just my opinion.

Maybe we could have a list drawn up, of things far too inconsequential to bother getting upset about. And then another list of things which are deemed tragic enough to shed a tear over. Then we'd learn to only feel compassion and empathy for really worthy causes, and not waste our emotions on anything lesser.

OP I understand how you feel. We visit the National Space Centre every year, and I feel saddened whenever I read about Laika there. I try not to focus on any of the many, many, many horrible things that have happened, and which still happen, as it's just too much.

www.sftmorocco.org - this is an amazing place I happen to be a trustee for!! Have a look at the amazing work done here and it helps a little when you find yourself blindsided by the bad things animals go through 😊

@Ahickifromkinicki I don't know if you meant that post to make you sound more compassionate than the OP or what, but it actually made you sound considerably less so.

Sorry but the line "I'm gonna do some tribute art" just says it all for me.

I hadn't heard of laika until now - how very sad.

There have been some unnecessary comments here - we can't always control what upsets us. I also get upset when I see or hear of animals in distress - it doesn't mean I can't emphasise with other human tragedies. It's not a case of either or!

Nobody is saying you need baying or need to be in hospital. We have to have some kind of shield to the suffering or we go under

pigeondujour

No, I didn't mean that.

What I meant, and I may have expressed this clumsily, is that we in the first world have the luxury of crying over a dead dog in space, while people in other countries don't.

My compassion or lack of is neither here nor there. Why would you think this is about my compassion?

OP, I don'the mean to sound awful but I'm glad you cried and cried this morning. I MEAN, tears rarely come from nowhere, yours were there waiting to come out and Laika brought them out of you.

I hope you feel better for it. If not, then they serve as an indicator that all is not well and something needs addressed. Take care.

I know this is vipery mumsnet, but all these "shouldn't you be upset about X" (where did she say she isn't?) posts, the patronising "are you vegetarian?" (Does eating meat mean you are unqualified to feel sad about unnecessary suffering?) posts and the downright mean spirited posts taking the piss out of her emotions/her tribute art are really fucking disappointing.
Yes i agree
Clearly people can't be upset over something little, because there are soo much worse things going on.

Op i hate it. It always makes me a little sad when i've read about it and when i think about it's last days.
I think it's because i imagine and scared mine would be if they were suddenly taken away!
I hate anything sad that's related to animals.
Ignore the sneery posts!

Telling people what they should be upset about is a particular new low.

@Ahickifromkinicki because you made sure you mentioned yourself "having worked in third world and war torn countries, seen the effects of suicide bombings, seen innocent people with their hands torn off from a bomb blast, seen old Japanese women sobbing at the Hiroshima museum, hearing the childish lullaby that was playing in the school when the bomb struck Hiroshima". Came across like you think you have some kind of right to judge what other people should or shouldn't find upsetting. Referring to such a thing as a 'first world problem' and being upset about it as a 'luxury' is really nasty. Also quite dismissive of the emotional depth of people in developing countries, at least some of whom, I imagine, like dogs at the very least enough to consider one being blown up as a problem in their eyes too.

inkzooka I posted early on and I've been shocked by the majority of posts on here. Mumsnet seems to have a lot of arseholes on it at the moment. Where the fuck is the compassion? And to the posters sneering at tribute art---fuck off to the far side of fuck and then fuck off some more.

Please ignore the nasty posts OP , treat yourself kindly and try to do/think of something that makes you happy.

Prima your comment says far more about you than it does about the OP.

Since nobody else mentioned it... OP has said she is starting uni soon- so it's likely she is 18/19. Mature adults piling on to belittle and sneer at a (vulnerable?) teenager = not cool.

I was found sobbing unconsolably after reading the story of Captain Cook and how he died. I was eight. Decades ago. Some things get you. However much better to start thinking about the amazing, kind and hilarious things humans do too. Hope you're over it.

pigeondujour agree.
Lately it seems if a person posts that they're upset about an animal another person will come on and say but what about what is happening to these people, this is so much worse etc..

Primadonnagirl: Do you have any hobbies, interests, or passions we could have a good smirk over?

pigeondujour

You're wrong, actually. Just because I happened to be in those countries doesn't give me a greater capacity for insight or compassion then anyone else. I talked about the grief of Japanese women about Hirishima, not my own.

Also quite dismissive of the emotional depth of people in developing countries, at least some of whom, I imagine, like dogs at the very least enough to consider one being blown up as a problem in their eyes too.

Sorry, but this made me laugh. I don't think people in developing countries are worried about the imminent problem of a dog being blown up in space. Of course people like dogs, but they face real problems of dogs and cats roaming the streets, unfed and unspayed, often with horrific injuries inflicted on them.

Ahickifromkinicki: If one of your friends in real life is upset about something - (maybe splitting up with a partner, for eg)) do you tell them to "cheer up and think about Hiroshima"? Does it work?

What on earth???? I would be sobbing regarding poor Charlie Gard.
What on earth???? Do you know how many babies die in the third world every day? And that the Holocaust happened? How can you possibly feel sad because one child is dying???

What does peoples issues and problems in developing countries have to do with OP crying over a sad event about a dog?

Would it be fuck all by any chance?

Mathematically speaking, I think that's about right GahBuggerit.

You can smirk at me all you like.. OP put her views out for public comment and I don't agree.. Just as you don't agree with me