I am
an animal lover and since time I can’t even recollect, I have had a desire to
get a dog in my house. The reasons behind the rational in getting one are
obvious and I don’t want to get into that. For those of you who don’t know what
I’m talking about just imagine the impact of a person in your life that is
unselfish, caring, innocent and has the ability to impart unconditional love.
But lately I’ve been analyzing the reason why someone would want to not have
such a person in their life. There are things that I might point out that might
not set in well in the reader and I’m truly not apologetic for stating those. I
may be totally wrong but I have my reasons to say what I say and I’m open to
discussions given ego is set aside during that discussion.
There are various
“explanations/reasons” that people give when they want to discard this topic.
I’ll state some and try to find the rationale behind them. Many people say that
they would agree to everything that is good and positive in owning a dog; it’s
just that space is an issue. Fair enough point. But do you once sit down and
ponder as to what would happen to this already lack of space when you continue
your blood line. By that rationale, reproduction should also be looked at with
that very correct rationality and sense of logic. I would just argue here that
there are things that we do not just for their logic and rationality but which
we just cause we feel like to. That is why I think the term HOBBY exists. Also
there is a saying in India that we are never out of space. You would see a bus
packed with 100 people where only 50 can be accommodated and still when the
next person comes in, he would be welcome.
There is one other logic that
circulates quite a lot is that “I don’t think I can devote the time and attention
needed to a dog”. To this point I would put forth a few questions like “If you
were taken ill , how much time would you devote to your getting better?”, “If
you were to start a family , how much of your time would you give into them and
their needs?”, and so on. You would agree that questions like these are a no
brainer and anyone would readily devote as much time and energy willingly to
these tasks. There is a simple reason also as to why one would do that. It’s
that no effort goes in making such a decision and then following through.
Consider yourself in the most helpless or possibly the best situation that you
can be in – A bachelor. You are living alone, have n many tasks to do every day
and n many difficulties and issues. But now suppose your mother comes to live
with you, and then do you think that you would not be able to take out time for
her everyday even if that is just 5 minutes.
Also
may say that dogs litter the house and is a nuisance. I recently visited a
house where the toddler in the house was just being difficult to handle. He
cried all the time, was irritating and even was responsible for a lot of mess
in the house. Yet I didn’t see anyone fuss that much about him. They understand
that there would be a reason for him to do so and eventually when he grows up,
he would in fact understand and improve. Why is it so hard for us to think of
dogs in the same light? Why do we think that dogs are so dumb that are
inherently stupid and will never improve? Don’t you think as time progresses
the dog would connect with his master and try to improve up on himself? Also if
in the rarest case he doesn’t, there would be a logical reasoning as to why he
doesn’t. If you think that you can get a remote control toy to which you feed a
set of instructions and get the optimum performance out of , I’m sorry you are
totally wrong. One more point that I would like to make is that there are times
when a neat and tidy house is far worse to live in than the dirtiest house on
earth. A house is not defined by the things that is in it but rather by the
people that are in them. Also people may come and admire a house but when you
critically analyze, what are they really admiring? The orientation of furniture
or the quality of life that the people living in it are getting. That is what
really defines you. I don’t want to make everyone stop cleaning their houses
and starts living in a dump but only give it that much time that you can afford
to give.
Many people say that I’m scared
of dogs. To this I would like to state that I’m too am afraid of aliens. Do you
think I’ve seen one? Do you think that they(if they do exist) would all be
harmful to us? Try to look at these questions of mine a reasonable manner, and
see that my fear is totally prejudiced. I have made and decision without
investigating in to find its rationality. People who are fearful of dogs have a
prejudice. I do realize that some dogs are scary and they are just bread for
that purpose. It is same as you fear and hate terrorist and love Mother Teresa.
Maybe some incident made you that way but its continuation is totally up to
you. Ignorance is a disease that can be cured via knowledge.
Lastly there is a point that I can’t argue against is
that “I don’t like dogs and this I don’t want one.” But have not at least one
of you seen there to be people that would be saying that they absolutely hate
kids but when they finally have one their life just changes and they take back
their own words. I can’t summarize that joys kids brings in the life in the
form of small moments of sheer joys like or how they give a whole new
perspective to your life when they treat you like their GOD and worship you and
wait eagerly for your arrival. In the same way maybe owing a dog have some such
moments in them, waiting for you to cherish them.
This may not be an exhaustive list as people in general
have an very active imagination and their ability to debate on the silliest of
points makes them highly effective in enveloping themselves in a layer
ignorance.
At this point (for those who are still reading), you
would feel that I’m trying to force my opinion on to you. I would like to
reassure you that this is certainly not my intension. I just want to put forth
my point and just hope to inculcate in you a sense that you should believe in
things that you do , BUT for the right reasons.
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