I have just finished reading my first and probably the only Chicken Soup book. Books about searching for soul enlighten is not my kind of read. I finally read one Chicken Soup book because it talks about pets, and you can see from this blog how much I love my pets.
The book that I mentioned about is Chicken Soup for The Cat and Dog Lover’s Soul. I have written my review of the book in my main blog, you can read it here.
The book doesn’t have stories about turtle, and in this blog that I have dedicated for my turtles, I want to share my own chicken soup story.
People might think that reptiles can not think and they can’t show affection toward their owner….I have to say that those people are so wrong!! Reptiles will behave depends on how their owner treat them.
My turtles know their names and they listen to me from time to time. They are not as obedient as dog but you’ll be amazed to see that they understand it perfectly well when I told them not to go somewhere. Once when the front door was open, Kroten stepped out of the front door and I told her with higher tone ‘Kroten, don’t go outside!!’ and Kroten turned back and sat inside the house looking at the view outside the door.
I can write pages of their amazing-ness but for now I only want to share you the story of how the kept me away from loneliness.
I still live with my parents, Indonesian rarely live separately from their parents unless they get married or have to work far from home. Last year, my mom had to struggle to fight her tumor in her stomach. We decided to take her to Padang, my dad went along to accompany her. I was left alone in our house. Our small house became so big for me. No one was around to listen for my story at my school, I love telling stories of my students to my parents. No one was around to fight or laugh together. I never lived alone in my entire life till that day.
But then I realized that I was not entirely alone
I have two cute turtles to accompany me.
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