We grow up with the conventional thinking that we will become adults and our parents will grow old and die before we do. Furthermore, our children will grow up to be adults and we will predecease them in old age.

When a pet dies it's a grievous loss and a tumultuous pain that pierces the heart with an exigent trudge. Granted it's not a spouse or a child or a parent, but (sparing all platitudes) it's a loved one.

Marriages, relationships and friendships are a lot like a baseball glove: The more you break it in, the harder it is to part with it. The fit is not only molded to you, but the more you use it, the softer it gets. Relationships are counterparts of the same.

It's much wiser to learn from other's mistakes than to go through a painful experience and learn from it. Some might disagree with it because they feel one can only learn by experiencing something and realizing the mistakes by suffering. No doubt that is an effective way of learning but isn't it more costly too? In fact, some mistakes are so costly that it requires a life time to pay for it but life is for once and is it worth wasting the entire life paying for some mistakes that we didn't think properly before committing? Well, not at all!