Happiness: What Dogs Know
I heard a guy on the radio talking about why he loved dogs. “No matter what’s going on,” he says, “it’s always their favorite thing. You ask ‘em, ‘Want to go for a walk?’ and they get so excited you can hear their doggy brains saying, ‘Oh boy! My favorite thing!’ Want to take a nap? ‘Oh boy! My favorite thing!’ Want a bone? “Oh boy! My favorite thing!” Want to go chase skunks? ‘Oh boy! My favorite thing!’”
Dogs know the key. It’s loving whatever comes down the pike, whatever the moment brings. Well, okay, not everything. Dogs have their times of grief and pain just like we humans do. But on your ordinary run-of-the-mill day, dogs are minute-by-minute on it. Walk, sleep, eat, dig, jump, scratch, work or play, a dog does it with every molecule of his being.
Dogs don’t get tied up in indecision. They don’t worry about what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow. And they’re not big on comparing themselves to the status of the dog next door. They don’t fret about whether they’re as strong or as smart or who has the bigger dog house or the best-groomed hair.
That pretty much frees them to exercise their natural enthusiasm, to latch on to the sweet spot in every passing moment and play it for all its worth. For dogs, it’s all about right now, and loving it. It’s about basking in it, devouring it, lolling in it, engaging with it, full-tilt all the way.
Sometimes I hear people say that the world is going to the dogs. I wish it would—at least long enough to see all the things they have to teach us. It just might turn out to be a better place.
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