As I messed up yesterday’s Sunday Rewind and it is a holiday and I am struggling with what to write I have decided to make today’s newsletter free. I do hope you enjoy it.
It is a simple question. those are often the most difficult to answer. Why do I love pets? I have to love them. I work with them. I have three of my own. What is it about pets that makes us love them?
We learn that love is patient, love is kind, and all that high fluent jazz, but love is also silly. I think about this when I am walking out of a house of a pet I met two days ago and the last thing I say is, “Love you, see you soon.” It is a silly thing. I am telling someone else’s pet, who I barely know, that I love them.
I often ask myself after doing this if I really love them or just need something to say? The more I think about it the more I believe that there is just something about pets that gets us to love them. They are soft, cuddly, keep us company, and never ask too much from us. We feed them, take them for walks or clean their litter boxes, give them treats and affection, and sometimes just spend time with them. That is all they ever ask of us. Pets don’t need to be kept dripping with diamonds or taken to the hottest new dining spot in town. They never ask us for a new car or the latest fancy gadget. We are enough.
That is love, isn’t it? You, whoever you are, being enough. It is simple. Love is so very simple. Accept another person for who they are and build a life with them. Isn’t that exactly what we do with our pets and isn’t that what they do with us?
Every day when I come in here to write this newsletter the cat comes to find me. He wants to be with me, be near me, and he hardly ever asks anything of me. Just to be. When it comes down to it that is why I love pets and perhaps why you do as well. Whoever you are is enough. All you ever have to do around pets is exist and that is enough.