[ SHOWGSD-L ] Days You will remember..
- From: "pmick12" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:30:33 -0400
A friend shared this with me today...now I share it with you.
Peggy
A Living Love
If you ever love an animal, there are three days in your life you will
always remember...
The first is a day, blessed with happiness, when you bring home your young
new friend. You may have spent weeks deciding on a breed. You may have asked
numerous opinions of many vets, or done long research in finding a breeder.
Or, perhaps in a fleeting moment, you may have just chosen that silly
looking mutt in a shelter--simply because something in its eyes reached your
heart. But when you bring that chosen pet home, and watch it explore, and
claim its special place in your hall or front room--and when you feel it
brush against you for the first time--it instills a feeling of pure love you
will carry with you through the many years to come.
The second day will occur eight or nine or ten years later. It will be a
day like any other. Routine and unexceptional. But, for a surprising
instant, you will look at your long-time friend and see age where you once
saw youth. You will see slow deliberate steps where you once saw energy.
And you will see sleep where you once saw activity. So you will begin to
adjust your friend's diet--and you may add a pill or two to her food. And
you may feel a growing fear deep within yourself, which bodes of a coming
emptiness. And you will feel this uneasy feeling, on and off, until the
third day finally arrives.
And on this day--if your friend and God have not decided for you, then you
will be faced with making a decision of your own--on behalf of your lifelong
friend, and with the guidance of your own deepest Spirit. But whichever way
your friend eventually leaves you---you will feel as alone as a single star
in the dark night. If you are wise, you will let the tears flow as freely
and as often as they must. And if you are typical, you will find that not
many in your circle of family or friends will be able to understand your
grief, or comfort you. But if you are true to the love of the pet you
> cherished through the many joy-filled years, you may find that a soul--a
> bit smaller in size than your own---seems to walk with you, at times,
> during the lonely days to come. And at moments when you least expect
> anything out of the ordinary to happen, you may feel something brush
> against your leg--very very lightly. And looking down at the place where
> your dear, perhaps dearest, friend used to lay---you will remember those
> three significant days. The memory will most likely be painful, and leave
> an ache in your heart---As time passes the ache will come and go as it
> has a life of its own. You will both reject it and embrace it, and it may
> confuse you. If you reject it, it will depress you. If you embrace it,
> it will deepen you. Either way, it will still be an ache.
But there will be, I assure you, a fourth day when---along with the memory
of your pet---and piercing through the heaviness in your heart---there will
come a realization that belongs only to you. It will be as unique and strong
as our relationship with each animal we have loved, and lost. This
realization takes the form of a Living Love---like the heavenly scent of a
rose that remains after the petals have wilted, this love will remain and
grow--and be there for us to remember. It is a love we have earned. It is
the legacy our pets leave us when they go. And it is a gift we may keep with
us as long as we live. It is a love which is ours alone. And until we
ourselves leave, perhaps to join our beloved pets--it is a love that we will
always possess.
Written by Martin Scot Kosins
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