CONFESSION FROM A DOG

“I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand.”
~ Confucius ~

What is a meaningful life?

Devotion.

Devoting oneself to loving others, devoting oneself to one’s community, and devoting oneself to creating a life that gives one a meaning and a purpose.

Devotion is the essence for tenderness and empowerment cannot be substitute for it. In time of a dying life, true devotion is what one needs most to give the fulfillment one is looking for in that moment. Power, no matter how much one can have can never give that feelings one need the most.

Devotion is like marriage. Every marriage has its own problems. Some are about getting in it; others are about getting out of it.

Devotion is equivalent to a sturdy mind; it makes marriage a continuous journey. So one will not run away from the problems that are coming out of it. Instead one has to work at creating one’s own culture.

Devotion never makes shortsightedness the biggest defect. Devotion makes one sees what one could do while facing it. One should be looking at one’s potential, stretching oneself into everything one can become.

Remember, everyone is much alike. Everyone has the same beginning – birth – and the same end – death. So how different can everyone be?

Devotion in marriage is an investment. It is a huge network; investment in the human family leads to investment in people. It helps in building a little community. It doesn’t matter if those loved would love one back. Credits are not important. Devotion is a responsibility. This responsibility is about survival. In the beginning of life as an infant, one needs others to survive and at the end of it, one still needs others to survive. But one must remember, in between, one needs others to survive.

In this world now, it is the culture for the young people to rush into marriage and some years later, they get divorced.

Humans are sometimes so transparent. So much in most choices made, people do not know the real persons their partners are. Yet, how can they know who are they marrying when their partners themselves do not know who they are themselves?

This much has been learnt about marriage. Once tested, one will find out who one is, who the partner is and how to accommodate or don’t.

Without devotion, things in marriage are not that simple.

It has been mentioned; there are a few rules to be true about marriage;

(1) If one doesn’t respect the other, one is into a lot of trouble.
(2) If one doesn’t know how to compromise, one is into a lot of trouble.
(3) If one cannot talk openly about what goes on between them, one is into a lot of trouble.
(4) If a married couple doesn’t have a common set of values in life, one is into a lot of trouble.

However, it has been more difficult to oblige to the rules. The cultures that
society has built around themselves are calling for self-defensive measures against their partners. This is their only attempt to keep their sanity and bond the human family they have built. Though the strings are loosely bind as the efforts are mostly made mainly by them.

And so, devotion is their only charms. They have to work at it because of the love they have for their children. Since devotion is a responsibility and children are their main priorities, these help to pull them back together.

As a conclusion, my devotion has taught me a new belief. “All these while I know I have been slogging like a donkey, today I found out I am a dog.” And who would have blamed me?

I embossed my thoughts and sealed to my belief.



I am,

Tyro