Post #7 Enjoy!

It is really easy to get caught up in the day to day mundane tasks of our lives. It is even easier to forget that sometimes we need to just stop with all of the hustle and bustle all of the stress and chaos and just enjoy. 

Today Baron had a seizure. It wasn’t one of the worst he has ever had, it lasted about 45 seconds and when it was over I gave him his medication and followed the normal post-ictal routine that both of us have become accustomed to.

Now, you are probably asking yourself “what in the world do these two things have to do with each other?”  Well, on the surface they have nothing on common. But, in way barons seizure has reminded me to stop and enjoy.

Within about seven minutes following Barons seizure he was back to himself again. He was running around with Bubba, barking at the horses and splashing in the pond, and rolling in the mud. What is so remarkable to me is that Baron doesn’t know he has something wrong with him, he doesn’t know he is different than Bubba. He only knows that he will enjoy every moment of his farm dog life style that he can.

Watching my dog run around with the others always brings joy to my heart and today was no different. In his play Baron was able to make me stop and just enjoy the world around me. In that moment I wasn’t worried about the homework I had gotten behind on, I didn’t worry about the dirty laundry that wasn’t getting washed and I wasn’t worried that I should be getting ready for work. All that mattered in that one brief moment was that my dog was happy, I was happy and there was peace in our little corner of the world.

Now I know that watching a silly dog run around a farm could never cure the world of all of its problems. But, I do believe that if we all are willing to just take a brief moment every day, just stop what we are doing and look around us. Take time to breathe in the fresh air, relish in the feel of the sunshine on our cheeks, heck maybe even splash in the pond we would all feel better. It would make us all just a little bit happier, putting us all in a bit better mood. Maybe we would even treat each other just a little better. 

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