A dog’s whole life fits inside your teens and twenties. Take the extra walk.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
An animal moves through its entire life in the time it takes you to go from school to a first job. Nothing about that is unfair, but it does change what an ordinary evening is worth. The walk you skip because you are tired is not one of many, it is one of a fixed and fairly small number.
Take the longer route tonight, even if it is only ten extra minutes. Leave the phone in your pocket while you do. Attention is most of what an animal is asking for, and it is the part you will be glad you gave.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
When did you last take the longer walk with your dog?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- Wrinkles are mileage on a car that went places. Nobody brags about a car that sat in the garage.
- Appreciation has an expiration date. Share it before it’s a thing you wish you’d done.
- Somewhere in the past there was a final game of tag with your cousins. Nobody announced it. Show up for the ordinary…
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.