Resolve to be more compatible and understanding in the new year
I think we have entered into a time for looking back at the year that is behind us, as well as forward at the coming year. We can do nothing about the rough places in our lives, the mistakes we made as we tried to find a fulfilling life along the road to happiness.
We can do nothing about the mistakes we may have made in the year that is passing and is being posted into history books. But certainly we can learn lessons of value from the mistakes we may have made.
We are faced by many challenges every day of our life, and all too often we seek a ‘quick fix,’ and those ‘quick fixes’ often lead to a long and tiresome road. How strange it is, we have improved on so much in our daily living, and so many times we think we got the world by the tail, when in fact, it has us by the tail and is swinging us around and around
At the dawning of a new year many individuals elect to make new year’s resolutions. Yes, we all see areas in our lives that need improvement. So many times we will not bring ourselves to admit it. But in too many cases, to attempt this only makes the situation worse. Most defiantly we live in a troubled world. As we are made aware of what is going on in our land, we are made to wonder why can’t people live together in unity?
People who should be as one are often at odds with one another over some trivial matter. It may be something that actually doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, and we consider ourselves intelligent.
I have two dogs that get along better than many intelligent people. In fact these dogs are nearly always together. One is a German shepherd and the other was said to be Dalmatian. She has markings similar to a Dalmatian, but her size rivals that of a beagle hound. I have said all that to say this, the German shepherd is a registered dog and, to my knowledge, the Dalmatian is not. The thing of it is the German shepherd is a follower; the Dalmatian is a leader. Everywhere the Dalmatian goes, the German shepherd is not far behind. More often than not they probably know where each other are at all times. Once in a while through the Dalmatian will disappear. If the German shepherd can’t find her, she will trot from the front porch to the back yard with a mournful howl. She will continue this kind of thing until she finds her partner. I point to the dogs only as an example of what we humans should be.
It is not enough just to want others to be nice to us, we have to be just as nice to others as we want them be of us. It should shame us all to see an animal we think is of a lower way of life. We all have heard of the term: ‘humans fighting like cats and dogs.’ The irony of this is I had an Eskimo spitz one time. There was nothing special about the dog except one thing, she gave all others a bad name. For, you see, we also had a cat. They ate and slept together. Isn’t it a pity that we humans can’t take on the characteristics of some of our pets?