{"id":976,"date":"2022-03-17T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=976"},"modified":"2022-03-17T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T03:06:15","slug":"be-more-like-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/17\/be-more-like-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Be More Like Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We’re flawed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever been walking along and stumble over nothing but your own big feet?\u00a0 We all have.\u00a0 There’s nothing strange about that.\u00a0 But what do you do when that happens?\u00a0 Ok, you get up, of course, but what else?<\/p>\n

You feel embarrassed, and… you look around to see if anybody saw you.\u00a0 Don’t lie.\u00a0 Don’t kid yourself.\u00a0 You do and you know it.\u00a0 Don’t pretend your above it.\u00a0 You don’t want to feel like your dignity is lessened.\u00a0 It’s part of the human experience, and it’s flawed.\u00a0 I do not know if it’s natural or learned, but it’s there.<\/p>\n

You stumble and fall.\u00a0 You get up and brush yourself off, and you look around, already thinking how you will give a fake laugh and try to “blow it off” to others just in case they saw it.\u00a0 You have to save face, you know.\u00a0 And God forbid someone recorded it and you end up on a funny video show.<\/p>\n

But what would a dog do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When a dog stumbles over nothing but their own paws and falls, they get up, and… resume walking as if nothing happened.\u00a0 That’s it.\u00a0 Nothing else.\u00a0 There is no internal feeling of shame or embarrassment.\u00a0 They literally could not care less if a person or another dog saw them do it.<\/p>\n

Think about this.\u00a0 Maybe this is one reason why dogs seem to be happier and less troubled than humans.\u00a0 They don’t sweat the small stuff.\u00a0 And a minor stumble is the small stuff.\u00a0 It doesn’t hurt anything, it doesn’t affect anything, we should get right up and continue on just like dogs do… but we allow emotional baggage to creep in.<\/p>\n

Be more like a dog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We’re flawed. Have you ever been walking along and stumble over nothing but your own big feet?\u00a0 We all have.\u00a0 There’s nothing strange about that.\u00a0 But what do you do when that happens?\u00a0 Ok, you get up, of course, but what else? You feel embarrassed, and… you look around to see if anybody saw you.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}