At Least They're Committed

Every time I refill the water bottle for Lu, my rat, I consider filling it half full so as I’ll have to refill it more often for optimum health and freshness. However, then I think, like, what would happen if there were an earthquake or an air raid or a plane crash and he were stuck here for days and I couldn’t get to him and he suffered from dehydration and died a miserable death that could have been prevented had I only filled the water bottle up. So I always completely fill it. Yet, then I worry that mankind could get wiped out and he’s stuck in that cage, like the creepy guy in the cell in The Stand, unable to be released, starving, suffering. And then I think I’m an idiot for dwelling on these sorts of things but I can’t seem to block them from my head.