Beeney 2

For those of you people who think they feel alone, you may not truly know how that feels.

This is actually a true story that I don't think I'll ever forget anytime soon.

If you truly want to know what it feels like, go to a pet cemetary.

Me, Mom, and my little brother were driving around Washburn North Dakota's cemetary. (older sister is buried there, Adrian) We're driving down a dirt road and we see a sign that says "- Pet Cemetary". Mom decides to visit, I do too, I had never been to a pet cemetary before, and my little brother agrees. In a way, we were both curious.

We get there and there's at least 100 little headstones and name plates. A fence surrounds it and the cat and dog sections are seperated by a line of trees. But what shocked me first, is that it was actually blocked off. I hesitated a little bit before I walked in, Mom stepped right up and crossed the wooded "X" that was over the entrance. So I followed my brother and Mom.

As soon as I walked in, it just didn't feel right. Like that deep down sadness type of feeling. Getting a closer look, I notice all the grass is over grown. Walking a bit further it feels like your the last person on the planet. It didn't help that you see some nameplates are practically invisible. Most of the grass was so tall it covered names and phrases on the headstones. Some headstones even had a picture of the pets and owners, looking so happy, with a phrase like "Never Forgotten" or "We'll Always Love You", when they were clearly forgotten at least 3 years previously. But that wasn't even the worst part.

If you stayed there long enough, you felt completely alone. Not just like you were the last person there, but that you were completely ignored. It's kinda hard to explain but I guess it's like your in a room full of people and no one notices or even seems to care that you're there. I remember a vague feeling that I truely was all by myself there. Not just mentally but physically too, like my mom and brother weren't there.

After barely 10 minutes none of us could handle much more of it and we left. I actually felt kinda bad about leaving but at the same time I didn't. I felt bad because in the human cemetary you felt peace and happiness, but the pet cemetary was the complete opposite. I just didn't think that was fair.

Would you forget something like that?