Sadness hit me when I realized that 4 p. m. had gone unnoticed. Every day, a few minutes before the hour, my cute dog, Jake, would stare at me, pushing me to get his dinner. Now Jake is gone, and the disappearance of the comforting pace he brought to my days is like a minute-by-minute reminder of my loss. Friends comfort me by telling me I saved him. But a rescue organization did that. By the time I met him, he had already been saved, just not settled.
The real story is that Jake saved me. Before Jake, I was living in a total mess, addicted madly to video games. I lost interest in any schoolwork and skipped classes a lot. Electronic devices were what I cared about most. My parents were deeply concerned about me but it's tricky to handle a stubborn teenager, taking the wrong way. Shortly afterwards, I dropped out of school.
It felt so good at the very beginning. I locked myself inside my bedroom, lost in violent games and losing track of time and meals. Fights with parents occurred frequently. I thought my life would be that forever, but one day, without any trace, those games couldn't interest me anymore. I sank into a deep sorrow, feeling everything in my life was blank and meaningless. That lifelessness swallowed me whole. I was consumed with boredom and emptiness. I was separated from the world by a sheet of dirty glass. Me on inside, everything and everyone else on the other. I avoided socializing. I rarely reached out. I assumed the worst in people and figured they saw the worst in me. My parents were anxious and appointed a therapist for me.
That's when I first met Jake. I was waiting for a traffic light when I spotted an adoption event and then Jake, with his big eyes drooping(低垂), in which I saw his pain, just as he saw mine. I could tell his eyes glittered when approached. After living a whole irresponsible life, I decided to be responsible for something.
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I adopted him without hesitation, thus opening a new chapter of his life.
Jake, too, witnessed great changes in me.
