Jackthelab Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 My name is Max and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your ear. I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life. Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now, that comes with age. The gray hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle. You smile at me, I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see a spirit, a soul inside who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrongdoing for just a simple moment of your time? That is all I ask. To slow down if even for a few minutes to be with me. So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen, of others of my kind, passing. Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes we age so slowly before your eyes that you do not even seem to know, until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we take that long sleep, to run free in distant lands. I may not be here tomorrow. I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the waters from your eyes, that humans have when deep grief fills their soul, and you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just "one more day" with me. Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have now, together. So come, sit down here next to me on the floor. And look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart. Come to me not as "alpha" or as a "trainer" or even a "Mom or Dad", come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one another's eyes, and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even life in general. You decided to have me in your life (I hope) because you wanted a soul to share just such things with. Someone very different from you, and here I am. I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet"---I know what you are. You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still. Now, come sit with me, on the floor. Enter my world, and let time slow down if even for only 15 minutes. Look deep in my eyes, and whisper to my ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy and I will know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so very short. Love, Max (on behalf of all canines everywhere) Author: J. D. Ellis 2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collies r best Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 So true. I have cursed myself for the amount of times i ignored that look on Hectors face because i was 'too busy', now hes gone i dont have those times to spend with him anymore.I know he was loved and he knew that but...if only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReikiAnge Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 I've seen this before a number of times and it certainly makes you stop and think and I remind myself of it now and then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merledogs Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 (edited) Oh gawd, now I'm blubbing That's lovely and so true (and I'm off now to sit on the floor with my mutts) Edited January 28, 2007 by madmerle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix21 Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 am now all am off to give molly some cuddles - shes always pushed to the back as i spend so much time with phoeny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KathyM Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 I did this with Dharma. I'm injured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranirottie Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 that is very touching and very true. x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkle Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 bootiful Working so much now that I am missing out on moments with my doglets but determined to make time to just lie with them and talk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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