Best Friend

Being an only child could be a great thing, because it means you don’t have to share anything or fight with anyone. However at some point it gets boring, seeing everyone else playing with their brothers and sisters just makes you feel alone because you don’t have anyone to play with. That’s how I felt growing up, it was just my parents and I, until we decided to get a pet. I was five years old when my parents got me a dog, it was very exciting to bring her home and have my own pet. At that point I had someone to play with, I would take care of her, walk her, feed her, I really liked having a pet.

After two years we had to give her away, we were moving and couldn’t take her with us. It was very hard giving my dog away, she was the only one I had to play with and I grew really attached to her. I didn’t have a pet for nine years, it felt really weird because I was really used to coming home from school and seeing my dog jump around, I missed having a pet. I couldn’t do anything about it for nine years because we lived in an apartment and they didn’t allow animals. This really affected me because being the only child and not having anyone to play with and to keep me company made me miss my pet even more.

After the nine years of living in the apartment we finally moved to a house, the first thing I asked my parents was if we could get a dog. They knew how much I missed my old dog and how it was a struggle not having one for a long time, so they let me get a pet. I never really understood how much I really liked having a pet until I had to give mine away and wait nine long years to finally have a pet again.