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Confessions of a dog lover
Dear beloved,

You know it is difficult for me to put together loving words, in a somewhat coherent manner when I am with you!! I am not good at small talk or any other kind of talk when I come to see your face!! So, I write this, in hopes of getting you to understand how I really feel about you, my dearest !!

Do you remember the picture I sent you last week, that one with my puppy hugging me with her head nuzzled near my heart? Just moments before I clicked that picture, I was talking to her like I do usually about my exhausting day and the trials and struggles around the world. She was looking at me with such interest, listening to every word coming out of my mouth, like it was holy writ. When I finished talking, I held her up and gave her a kiss and she looked at me square in my eyes with her clear brown sparkly ones and hugged me! I can tell you without any doubt, that was the most understood I have felt in my life!! I experienced a joy, a peace that I had never felt before! It is a joy akin to that I feel when I am around you! I feel at peace with you, like you are my own security blanket.

I have always felt that loving someone is a lot like getting a new pup. You are apprehensive about the idea, but oh so curious at the same time. You worry about them messing your space, shedding hair and poo everywhere, then leaving the scene like nothing happened. But once you decide and get a move on, you experience a fulfilling rewarding feeling. You laugh at yourself over all those insecurities you had! You love them more than anything else.. You wake up every morning wondering how to entertain them. You love every moment you spend with them, every attentive look and touch means the world to you! You get used to the quirks and whatever annoying habit they may have! I think when we love, we live in dog years!! As soon as you turn one, you are already a hormonal teenager fighting all the time but your love grows every single day and then you worry about how fast time moves and the day when they finally let you go may come soon!! That thought and the pain it brings takes you to that hollow space where you lived for so long! You can't imagine your life without their midnight shenanigans or them irritating you when you are in the midst of trying to get some work done!

You know, I have felt all of these tumultuous emotions when I got all my pups and then with the very humane, you!! I don't want to live a life where I get to be with you! And moreover, I haven't seen Bella get so attached to anyone like she did with you! I take as a good sign! She is a good judge of character. So, what I am saying is that, I love you!! Be my puppy's daddy forever!!

Yours truly,
Ganga.