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Live Like An Absolute Dog

Take a tip from man's best friend.

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Live Like An Absolute Dog

We are always so scared. We know that life is hard, and that one day it will get incredibly hard, and then it won't be there. I'm guilty of seeing time as more fleeting than freeing. I didn't realize that we could learn so much from the things we care the most about.

A few weeks ago I took my best friend to the vet. My dog, Ariel, had been acting differently the days leading up to the visit. As I waited in a room opposite one where she was getting an ultrasound, I chatted with an elderly man who had brought his dog for a checkup. "How great is it that we have them as our friends." This guy has the right idea about dogs, but also life.

I came out of the vet with the news that my beloved animal had a heart murmur, and it had gotten worse. I know I know, maybe to you it is "just a dog," but this one is so, very much, more. In the minutes walking to my car with her in my arms, I was thinking of all the crazy when, where, and what if's of the past, and of the future. Time is so fun until you seem to have to plan around it.

I looked at my dog, and it was shocking. This little animal had her tongue out and a smile on her face (if that is possible) (it is). This made me think: we can learn so much from these animals. Then I thought again, we DO learn so much from these animals. They are here to be happy, comforting, and kind.

My dog shows me constantly that every day is amazing, every person deserves to be greeted and given a chance, and that there is no sense of time if you are truly doing what you love. For her, that might be spending time with my family, but for me, I should be living like an absolute dog.

Any type of news can be taken in one of two ways: well or poorly. It is understood that there is some news that you just can't control a response to though.The key to the entire matter is that not everything calls for an upset reaction, even if the matter is immensely upsetting. Good news should be received well, and if need be jump up and down.

Live like you have no sense of time, no one to impress, and surround yourself with those whom you love, as well as who utterly love you.

Let your life be one that lets you run with it, bark at it, and snuggle into it with the knowledge that it is after all: constantly fleeting, yet so immensely freeing.

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