The short poem by Billy Collins “Care and feeding” is a story I can connect my personal life experience with. The narrator therefore seems to be a human, who either considers himself a dog or feels like one. While reading the story, I was thinking about how selfish the narrator sound. Because he’s turning 420 years old in dog age then that’s when he decide he wants to be a dog. After living his life on earth enjoy everything he possibly can, now the only thing left for him to think about is how he wants to become a dog because he feel old and lonely. Sometimes I do wish that I was someone else when things do not go my way and that I feel tired of trying for something I want to happen but either takes longer or seems impossible.
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Dogs are smart and I can say that I believe they do have senses. Dogs can tell how you feel and can read your intentions but being a human is more than that because as human we can make a difference from right to wrong and can also decide for ourselves. When as a dog we don’t really have much choices. I believe as human being no matter how old we are turning and how lonely and miserable life gets, we still have to be thankful and happy that we made it that far in life and not wishing to get our life taken away or turn into something else.
Wishing to be something or someone else in life to me is not a bad thing. Because there are days when I feel like I’ve fail in life, and wish that I could just start over with a new identity. There are days where I say to myself maybe I would have been happier if I was another person, or if I wasn’t in this body. As Billy mention he is about to turn 420 in gods years which I assume he’s getting old and he’s wondering what like can be in another body or even another species which is not human.
Billy Collins sound like a lonely man who would like to experience new things and see how it feels to be in a different position, a different mindset from what he use to know. Which I believe there’s nothing wrong with trying to see things different sometimes but the fact that he wants to turn into a dog bothers me because why wait
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Dogs are smart and I can say that I believe they do have senses. Dogs can tell how you feel and can read your intentions but being a human is more than that because as human we can make a difference from right to wrong and can also decide for ourselves. When as a dog we don’t really have much choices. I believe as human being no matter how old we are turning and how lonely and miserable life gets, we still have to be thankful and happy that we made it that far in life and not wishing to get our life taken away or turn into something else.
Wishing to be something or someone else in life to me is not a bad thing. Because there are days when I feel like I’ve fail in life, and wish that I could just start over with a new identity. There are days where I say to myself maybe I would have been happier if I was another person, or if I wasn’t in this body. As Billy mention he is about to turn 420 in gods years which I assume he’s getting old and he’s wondering what like can be in another body or even another species which is not human.
Billy Collins sound like a lonely man who would like to experience new things and see how it feels to be in a different position, a different mindset from what he use to know. Which I believe there’s nothing wrong with trying to see things different sometimes but the fact that he wants to turn into a dog bothers me because why wait