Very often people ask my opinion on having a pet. Most of the time I reply back with what ever I feel at that point in time. The opinion that I maintain is that I do not want to have pets. People would construe it as that Aditya does not like pets.
This infact is not true. To be honest, I love dogs. The bigger the better. Absolutely adorable creatures. Their love is unconditional and all they ask from you is a little attention and a place in your life. Everything about dogs is great. Right from the time puppy time to adolescence to an adult....Well I guess not everything.
Life is complicated. There are hazaar things and relationships which have been thrust upon you right fron birth. You are expected to honour and reciprocate the love showered upon you....There are some relationships which are there by default - parents, siblings, grandparents, maternal side uncle aunts, paternal side uncle aunts and there are some which you end up making - spouse, children, grandchildren ( the last one is not really under your control, but its your doing)...In such a situation I feel why should I complicate my further by adding another relationship....
A canine is extended family...He is happy when you are happy and sad when you are sad. The vice versa is also true....The pain however of losing him is what keeps me from keeping one....The average age of a dog is about 1/6th of a human lifetime or 1/5th in some cases...There will be a situation when you can do nothing and your dog will pass on due to old age...The pain i think equates with one that of losing your offspring. I dont have kids yet, but I think the degree of pain would be in the same region...This certainity of pain keeps me away from owning a dog.
When ever I meet people who have a dog, I really love going to their house and I try to play and be friendly with the dog as much as possible....But almost every time I think about the worst case situation.....
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my dad is the same way, though slightly more extreme, he avoids dogs altogether. Though i have never seen him be unkind to dogs.
I assumed since childhood that he just didnt like them. But later i found out that his own pet dog was poisoned by thieves during his childhood, and after the loss of that dog, he never kept any pets again.
It is a huge responsibility to keep a dog, and yes the thought of losing him/her one day is a quite depressing one indeed.
Although, logically it represents a conundrum, if we were to adapt this line of thinking to preserve us from emotional injury, that would negate many a relationship, wouldnt it.i realize that its not the same, but i guess it all comes down to whether you think the positives outweigh the negative. Nothing that is good in life is free, so the unconditional love of any living creature will also have its price tag,which we will have to pay in time. But you arnt alone in this matter, this fear and other factors have prevented me from getting a dog for myself. Plus the one time i did get a puppy,he died in 11 days(it was severly ill to begin with). And inspite of having spent such a short time with me, that made me incredibly depressed.
i do rem the puppy...u adopted him in bangalore ? first or second year..?
this was in 8th grade.long back.
i didnt have any dogs when i bangalore, the one you saw in my home when you came last time was my grandpa's dog.
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