I noticed that! The boys all dressed in their Sunday best, the girls wearing old clothes plaid shirts and hand me downs. Mother looked like a man when I 1st saw her.10 kids, never mention of a Dad... Humm. The guys should work on the farm not babies anymore :-)
@@StinkyInky619 Ohhhhh I didn't know that but personality doesn't matter... like what if all of you were quite... The eldest is responsible for all but the adults have to be the most responsible actually.
It because in this video such a moment is highlighted but in reality with so many siblings. It is quite common. We cannot be in each others faces all the time. I was the quiet one.
You can't just make any chicken sit on eggs. the chicken has to be already 'broody' and sitting on her own eggs or an empty nest. Whoever wrote this has no idea about chickens
This was very touching to me; a sort of parallel to my own daughter who also has red hair except hers naturally coiled up into 'springs' and bounced when she ran.... My wife and I grew up in the country but moved to the city for work and that's where my daughter was born, but she certainly has the 'country' spirit. She has a love of all creatures great and small and somehow stray and abandoned animals seemed to find their way to our home where my daughter would instantly bond with them. She would care for them often with great success but also learned that it was not possible to save them all, as such we had a 'pet cemetery' of sorts in our backyard. She was known in our neighborhood as someone who cared for animals. One day we came home from grocery shopping to find a large paper bag sitting at our front door, it had six baby ducklings in it. We never found out who left them or where they were born, but I guess who ever left them figured they had the best chance at survival at our house. As reluctant as I was to keep them I was quickly out voted and they became part of our menagerie. Somehow they imprinted on my daughter and followed her literally EVERYWHERE she went, it was hilarious watching those ducks running behind her quacking frantically. I bought a small wading pool for them to swim in as we had no pond, my daughter was sitting in the backyard watching the ducks swim when one of her friends called her from across the street. Without thinking she jumped up and ran across the street and as you might guess the ducks ran after her when a careless driver came around the corner and nearly wiped out the whole bunch of them, daughter and ducks included. It became obvious that the ducks could not live in our yard forever. There was a large pond in one of our city parks that had a population of ducks living there and although they were not accepting any new 'residents' I managed to bribe the caretaker with a case of his favorite beer to turn a blind eye; by then the ducks were fully grown and early one Sunday morning under cover of darkness with no one else around the ducks were relocated. My daughter was sad to leave them but she knew they were truly in a better place. We would visit them often and bring large bags of popcorn to feed them all like many people did, and as time passed the ducks were seen with little ducklings of their own so I guess it really was a better place for them...….
@Vie Anggara… Thank you. Yes she is the apple of my eye, my only child. She's all grown up now married with children of her own; and she is still looking out for sick or injured animals. In fact I have a three legged cat living with me at my house now thanks to her, the cat lives with me because she has a dog that hates cats, but that's a whole other story. My granddaughters come to my house to visit 'their' cat every Sunday so it works out well for every one......
What a lovely story, I am a mom and I learnt something from you today.. To be sensitive to our childrens desires and support them, not push our own thoughts on them. Thank you!
🤸♀️OMFG, She looks EXACTLY like me as a wee one (only difference is I was mad tiny & really petite - the runt!) But Duude, the freckles, her smile, the eyes, the strawberry blonde hair, and especially her love for all of the animals - it really was like seeing myself in an old video or something. Insane!!!
@@BrianDagame oh okay. I also agree that strong and weak are ambiguous terms. But at least, it's not like many people support a Darwinian view of people as we live in a civilized world.
this is by far probably one of the most personal hitting short films i’ve ever seen in my life. when i was a child i was exactly like this girl, but imagine this girl with this heart in a broken home, that was me. i was abused, and i knew how it felt to be constantly deemed as worthless, to feel worthless, so whenever i saw smth as small as a lady bug flipped over on the grass or an animal in pain, my empathy extended, i KNEW how that felt, so i wanted to help! and so helping people has been my passion, i’ve been selfless my entire life so far, i’ve always loved everyone and everything deeply, tenderly, gently, while being utterly broken myself. im 18 now, and i’ve learned the heart doesnt change. last year i got into a relationship with someone i loved more than life, and it reminds me a lot of jack. i cared for this human so much, never ever wanted to hurt them, but i wasn’t okay, i saw them as my everyrhing! there happiness was key. when they told me they felt sad or were struggling with eating and depression and i couldn’t take away their pain i would sob in private, scream cry and yank my hair, i just wanted them to be happy, to take away all of their pain, to heal. we loved each other a lot but i was struggling terribly at the time, i didn’t open up to them about my insecurities or fears or trauma bc i feared i would push them away, but i did open up to them about the active mental illness symptoms i had such as panic attacks which happened daily and they would often help me calm down. i learned recently that they felt overwhelmed by my pain and apparently i was in some ways making them worse but they didn’t tell me, i did not know. any ways, one day i ended things with them bc of this fear i developed from my childhood that loving people makes them leave, i ended things bc i loved and cared so deeply but feared one day i’d lose them, and after i ended things they ghosted me, i felt devastated. i then went to therapy nd learned a lot about myself, that i’m actually a good person, a great person, a human with a heart so big that has been conditioned to believe other wise. i learned a lot about my irrational fears ans that i had gone through trauma, and i wanted to open up then and share with my love what i’d learn, confide, be transparent from my heart and possibly if anything save my relationship, but i was rejected upon every try of communicating, and out of fear of pushing them away more i didn’t speak. a year has passed and i still think of this perosn everyday, i still desire so badly to speak to them and share with them my side and what i have learned. one day they unblocked me and told me that they loved me sm but were focussing a lot on my problems (i had panic attacks often and didn’t eat and would often feel very sad which was out of my control) ans it made them worse, i didn’t know this. they hadn’t told me before. i wanted to then share with them my side, my trauma and how little i knew, how much i struggled and how much i cared for this person, but upon learning i made them feel that way all i could do was offer deep compassionate apologies and fill with self hate, shame that they ever met me in the first place. and so it is, that i struggle with this same struggle of this little girl, having the purest intentions and purest heart, but sometimes making a mistake, or having someone else interpret your intentions as bad and suddenly it changes how we see ourselves, see ourselves as bad. she didn’t mean for jack to get sick, she wanted to give him the best experience of swimming, i didnt know i was overwhelming my jack, i just gave the person all of me and loved so hard while being broken, and a lot of my intentions were misinterpreted , and while i should remain confident in the goodness of me, i feel in a constant state of the opposite. still haven’t moved on. i am still hoping and praying that someday very soon a miracle will happen and i will be able to speak to them and tell them my side and truth, bc it has been heavy on my heart and very painful. this person has apparently called me toxic and made many mean comments without ever understanding or trying to understand my side, without asking a question, and out of my humble as and bc i always se thingd through the purity of my heart i haven’t said anything, i haven’t even talked about them and the relationship ending to anyone but God and a bit to one friend. and it makes me feel very overwhelmed and troubled :( but i’m hoping and having faith. if u read this thank u :-), it must feel very hard for u to understand completely and weird, or like a form of over sharing that does not correlate to the film as i left out a lot but i mostly wrote this for myself, i have never seen a more accurate representation of childhood-18 year old me jow without the trauma and it means a lot, explains a lot, validates a lot. the painful reality of caring and loving and empathizIng so much. but if u understand, hello :), thank u, and i’m sorry if this made anyone that understands sad!
I sort of expected her to put a lot of work into raising Jack then one day when he was grown up her family would eat Jack. Didn't know this was taking a Titanic route
Wow that is exactly how I feel about my place in the world- rescuing and adopting the weakest animals even if it means I face more grief in the long run
A little empath 😊 reminds me of me, when I was that age..wanted to save and rescue every living being ..took it so close to the heart when things, beings died...Still do.. I love this 💙
Very beautiful and sad at the same time! I too love animals very much and look after them and protect them in any way I can. I love them more than humans.
Omg! The little girl is so adorable! Like, her strawberry red hair is so cute, and her frees are adorable, AND HER STYLE!? What the heck, it’s better than mine!
I pet sit and I remember the first time an animal died under my care. It was my bro-in-law's lifelong best friend, a 19 year old Calico named Baby Kitty. She was already very sick and she died in my arms. 2 years later my own lifelong best friend, a nearly 13 year old Nova Scotia/Beagle mix named Sophie died in my arms a month after I turned 18. This August it will have been 2 years since she drew her last breath and I still cry every single day.
Made me cry! I get emotional when I watch animal movies. I'm glad in the end she said that she would never let that happen again because as a cat lover when I saw her pick up the cat, I thought "oh no!" But that cat had nothing wrong with it and was quite healthy. It just wanted a home.❤
That's soo awesome! I always wanted to be a marine biologist, until I realized how much tuition would've cost & how many years it actually took. 😪LoL Good luck to you in all of your future endeavors. ✌
Harlow Jade Mermaid that’s so sweet of you to say! I actually considered being a marine biologist, too :) Thank you so much and good luck in your future endeavors, too! ❤️
You got it pal.. Just keep believing in yourself. Just keep your head above the water. Sooner or later you will learn swimming and you'll swim back to shore, where you're happy.
I'm the youngest in my family and I often feel like this too. I try to help people like me cuz it hurts when the family puts u down cuz ur so behind. I remember my family called me fat and lonely. (Months later) stopped eating lost weight. They called me weird. Soon became depressed due to them and bullying at school. My dad said he would protect me from the bullies. He left me years later due to a divorce. Moral is,no matter the challenge try to keep fighting no matter what
✊Right on. Alls we got is ourselves. It always feels like that we can never truly count on anybody in this world but ourselves, no matter what the situation. Always keep your head up, and just keep on keepin' on. Hopefully the next life will better. ☮💜☯
