Our True Best Friends

Our True Best Friends

Dogs are much more than partners making our lives less lonely. They possess superior qualities that place them above other animals, including people. Our canine friends´ virtues outnumber ours by far. Loyalty, gratefulness, and sincerity make dogs a model of nobleness worthy of imitation. Despite that, most of them receive little or no appreciation from their human masters. This regrettable attitude towards dogs has to do with the type of relationships people have among themselves. Mark Twain once said, “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

No matter how bad we may feel, our dogs will always be there for us, wagging their tails to wordlessly express how much we mean to them. Our presence is all they need to feel complete and beloved even when, too many times, we do nothing to evoke these feelings from them and may actually do the opposite. Even so, they still remain loyal to us. Can anyone imagine a more unconditional for of love? People need to start thinking about reciprocity with respect to master-dog relationships. Dogs deserve a lot more in exchange for all they give.

A mere bite of food represents a whole banquet for dogs if it comes from their masters. Dogs do not care about luxury and other types of human fetishism. Their gratefulness is centered on those simple things we usually disregard. Many people may find it lack of expectations; however, what gives more pleasure, having everything you want or loving everything you have? Our lives would be a lot more full of satisfaction if we were able to understand that appreciation is what makes things valuable.

Another virtue we should learn from dogs is sincerity. They experience our emotions. We can cheat people, but we cannot cheat our dogs.Our happiness is their happiness just as our sadness is their sadness. It is about empathy. Unfortunately, this feeling has become strange to so people that it is seen with some sense of mysticism reserved to a few enlightened human beings.

In conclusion, dogs are people’s true best friends. They give us loyalty, gratefulness, sincerity and many other valuable things hard to find in people. We can learn as much from them as they can from us. To do so, we need to be open to their teachings and forget they are “inferior animals” for a minute. People and dog’s lives would greatly benefit from a new type of master-dog relationship based on mutual appreciation and good treatment. Human relationships would be much better if we learned to love one another just as our dogs love us. In other words, our goal in life should be to become as good people as our dogs already think we are.

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