No matter how much I adore the depth of your words here (which comes with no surprise), I felt I had to add a note in relation to the combination of the magical beings we call animals/the weather:

Before discovering the 5th layer of my "Rescuer pattern" last October, I used to believe the climate would never be an annoyance source anymore. I even wrote this story to showcase the difference between the former era and the new one (silly me 🙈):

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/i-got-depressed-the-first-time-i-visited-stockholm-b5934cd11c8c

Little did I suspect that the annoyance has been preparing its coming back wearing a new outfit: It has absolutely nothing to do with me this time! TRIUMPHAL ENTRY, I must admit!

I can't stand very hot summer days or very cold and rainy winter days because they are too harsh on the stray kids. Interestingly, people's cruelty adds a new level of unfairness!

A trivial example is that I've been leaving countless water basins for months for the doggies (whose ancestors used to live in very cold parts of the globe).

No matter how much I tried my best to lower my expectations, my inner-child can't help but bleed when being a witness to humans nonchalance/brutality that doesn't seem to get any better over time...