What a Dog Knows (Or Doesn't)

So much has been written and researched when it comes to our happiness, but if we were able to understand how dogs think we would have all the answers to our questions.

So, what does a dog know that we don't?  I think the better question is, what do we know that a dog doesn't?  What we know is that life gets difficult and as we get older we are expected to "grow up" and eliminate the amount of "play" in our lives.

We have a terrible habit of slowly eliminating the amount we play in our daily lives as we grow older because of the pressure to make money, have children, a house, a spouse and, of course, a dog.  The irony here is that each of these things are good reasons to play instead of keeping us from doing so.

Listen folks, we are all in this big world together--why then, do we choose to make our lives so much more complicated than they need to be?

This is where my analogy about dogs comes in handy....Dogs aren't racist, prejudiced or materialistic--those are all man-made features.  Dogs represent what we used to be when we were naive and carefree children.  They live to play!

I'm actually glad we can't communicate easier with canines because that would give us the opportunity to infect them with our views of the world, which, in turn, would cluster their lives with information detrimental to a carefree existence.  But I do wish we could take some hints from our furry friends and collectively realize we are way off track to the true course of happiness.  Dogs embody happiness because they don't know how to act any different. Further, when a dog encounters something it doesn't like, it doesn't do it!

A quick aside:  My mother hated it when I tried to feed the dog people-food because she said it was bad for its health---so, why the hell do we eat 99% of the crap we eat if it isn't even good enough for the dog!!!?

Dogs don't have to ask themselves why they do what they do.  They simply exist and do it happily.  We need to eliminate the things in our lives that keep us from this type of existence. An existence where it is second nature to only do things that make us smile, to only eat things that are pure and good and to build relationships around a focal point of carefree living.

They say that dogs are a man's best friend.  That's because deep down we really wish we could be more like them.

We make hundreds of choices every day. What proportion of the choices you make are likely to please the dog?




--Schmidty