Teachings of a dog

Teachings of a dog

On certain days, I feel like I am losing all my talent. All that I had. Days when I walk home, feeling like the only person, though there a hundred people around me. 

Days when i think about what exactly happened which led to the loss of my abilities, When I want to know why I feel like going dark side, When i feel like my absence would not make a difference.

Flying between those thoughts, I walk slowly. And then I see an old friend of mine, whom I think i saved from death. A friend whose skin was bright! And the heart was flawless. But then I realise that it was a different friend whom i had thought of and this was just another passerby. I tried making him a friend. He was no less than the friend i thought of. The stray dog was the same but it was not the same. 

He accompanied me, till i reached home. Hobbing all along, trying to catch up with me. Asking me to stop moving at give it a pat. An energetic friend who had no thought of betrayal. All i needed to do was whistle. My warrior got me a dog, a friend who may give me all the answers.

Why did I feel talentless? The dog taught me that it is not always that one will bring out his talent. It is in the time of necessity that talent purges out, breaking any obstruction in between. That talent is something that would help you survive, but not something that is for you to show off. The way, it used its body to jump over the puddles of water, showed me this. Just because it could jump, it did not keep jumping, but did in the time of necessity.

Why do i feel like going into the dark side? I just did not find someone who would unintentionally block my thoughts to divert that way. A friend who would always stay in mind, acting like a cure, even though there is no disease. The dog too wandered around lonely, but my whistle brought its tail to wag with joy. The wag, could have caused a hurricane to any ant in the vicinity. A person whom you keep in mind and heart always will act as a cure to all such thoughts.

Why i feel like my absence won't make a difference? I feel that way because i was never shown how it would be. It was never expressed. It may make a difference, but definitely, no one showed me that it would make a difference. The next day when i was walking the same road, the dog came back. The very sight of it waiting showed me that my absence makes a difference to it. The dog showed me that my absence makes a difference by wanting my companionship.

All this, a dog answered. My protector, got me answers in the form of an animal that we consider much lower. Only in times like these are the importance of things shown. One may get answers in another way. But always, there will be answers, One just needs to know how to look for them.