Unconditional............love, friendship, understanding.......... not very common in today's date and time..............yet i found unconditional affection at the most unexpected of places. My little Dog taught me what unconditional love is.........really.........I know how it sounds, but its true. We all have our phases, times when things don't really look so great, there are times we just hang our heads..........and well, lets just say we don't really make an effort to stop the tears that are just so eager to come at such times. Its no uncommon knowledge that I am a little more sensitive than the average person, and so, I know such times a little better than most other ppl around. Every time I have felt low, every time i have sat alone and felt things are just so wrong, i have felt something furry push my arm aside and climb up my lap, talk to me the best it can with barks and whimpers and make an attempt to lick my tears away. I know this is Ginger's way of telling me that its okay, and if isn't it will be...........I'm here, see? most dogs will snap at you if you accidentally step on them or deliver an unwitting kick to the poor canine.......ITS A REFLEX ACTION!......My Ginger has a habit of waiting outside closed doors when I am within, and in the process has received more than a fair share of ouches! but EVERY single time that has happened, NEVER has he turned on me, to snap at me, even as a reflex! get this, he comes and starts LICKING me........letting me pet him back..........how can an animal overcome his reflexes, overcome the pain when a door nicks him and just KNOW it wasn't intended..........that it was AN ACCIDENT, AND HE LOVES ME AND I LOVE HIM BACK AND THAT'S WHAT WILL MAKE THE OUWIE OKAY??????!!!!!???????!!!!!! These are not just anecdotes from a ginger obsessed nut.........which I'm known to be. These cute little things have a much deeper undercurrent to them. The deal here is........My little Ginger, who, lets not forget........is after all, a DOG............seems to know the basics of love and friendship way more than most PEOPLE today!
When did we people become so intolerant? SPECIALLY of the people we claim to love and care so much about? whatever happened to giving the other person the benefit of doubt, just KNOWING that they care too much to ever really MEAN to hurt us? Is it so that a 7 kilo furball knows better than we do? really? a little cutie whose highlight of the day is a spin in the car barking at the neighborhood dogs?
I have seen failed relationships...........not just the mushy BF GF deals..............relationships between siblings, parents and children, friends............. just for the lack of this basic understanding. Its not brain-surgery really.......how hard can it be?
Ginger really got me thinking...........I'm 25..........One third of my life has passed me by.............I've started making that change, before its way too late :)
Though I must make a note here that I am lucky enough to be blessed with a few people wround who DO understand.............who are there unconditionally, who know the value of a true friend, of true loyalty and true commitment. People who appreciate the rarity of the phenomenon and therefore, cherish it. I have been lucky enough to have people around me who have blessed me with the best feeling ever- KNOWING YOUR BEST FRIENDS ARE STANDING BY YOUR SIDE, THEY'VE GOT YOUR BACK, EVEN WHEN THAY KNOW YOU'RE BLOODY WRONG!
Someone really close to me said something a few days ago while i was telling funny stories about her in front of someone she'd just met, I know she may not remember this, and I know to the rest of the world may find it trivial............but it made an impact on me which most people may never truly fathom..........when asked - you guys really don'y have any conditions between you do you? she said "ISN'T THAT HOW ITS SUPPOSED TO BE?"
P.S.- I KNOW THIS IS MUSHY.....................BUT THATS SERIOUSLY HOW I'VE BEEN FEELING..........AND ITS ALL TRUE ISN'T IT?
