Illusions of Immortality
This past 6 months has been nightmarishly surreal. Seemingly healthy and happy one day, then BAM, they're gone.
Indescriminate of who or what we are:
Friend:
Greg, a recent addition and invaluable asset to our disc dog community. Greg was quick to answer the call for volunteers in a community dedicated to keeping four-leggers happy and healthy chasing plastic discs. In my brief dealings with Greg I found him to be a friendly, compassionate, intelligent human being who unfailingly managed to make those around him smile. He was taken from his family and friends long before his mind, body, or spirit would have ever been willing to depart.
Canine Companions:
Tufe - a beautiful Dobbie, Sammy - an elder stateman of the disc dog world and inagural canine of the Wang family, Nitro - young speedy disc cruncher, Hula - a spirited little Heeler making her way up the disc dog charts, and unfortunately the list is larger and ever growing.
How can life be so fleeting when Life seems so rightfully ours, so permanent in abstraction from the overwhelming evidence of our everyday experience? Even when presented with this evidence, we each think ourselves invicible from moment to moment. Only when we look beyond the moment do we see the inevitable denoument to our unfolding stories. Or when our loved ones are snatched from our physical worlds do we lose our comforting illusions of immediate immortality. Painful and disconcerting as this revelation is, a tribute to the power and adaptability of our minds, we only stay disapointingly enlightened a short time blessedly falling headlong back into our soft cloud of numbing mercurial safety, scarred and marred but again oblivious.
I can imagine that our canine companions romp in this world of illusory invincibility, only rarely (if ever) being disillusioned with reality. For this we can be thankful, and we can reflect on the joy we gave our beloved pets while they frolicked uncaring of what all too sudden would be a severing of their mortal coil. Watch over them, you are everything to them at this moment, and "now" is all they care about.
To us all, live for the moment, because you are only invincible for the moment past.
Bye to another Disc Dog.
Indescriminate of who or what we are:
Friend:
Greg, a recent addition and invaluable asset to our disc dog community. Greg was quick to answer the call for volunteers in a community dedicated to keeping four-leggers happy and healthy chasing plastic discs. In my brief dealings with Greg I found him to be a friendly, compassionate, intelligent human being who unfailingly managed to make those around him smile. He was taken from his family and friends long before his mind, body, or spirit would have ever been willing to depart.
Canine Companions:
Tufe - a beautiful Dobbie, Sammy - an elder stateman of the disc dog world and inagural canine of the Wang family, Nitro - young speedy disc cruncher, Hula - a spirited little Heeler making her way up the disc dog charts, and unfortunately the list is larger and ever growing.
How can life be so fleeting when Life seems so rightfully ours, so permanent in abstraction from the overwhelming evidence of our everyday experience? Even when presented with this evidence, we each think ourselves invicible from moment to moment. Only when we look beyond the moment do we see the inevitable denoument to our unfolding stories. Or when our loved ones are snatched from our physical worlds do we lose our comforting illusions of immediate immortality. Painful and disconcerting as this revelation is, a tribute to the power and adaptability of our minds, we only stay disapointingly enlightened a short time blessedly falling headlong back into our soft cloud of numbing mercurial safety, scarred and marred but again oblivious.
I can imagine that our canine companions romp in this world of illusory invincibility, only rarely (if ever) being disillusioned with reality. For this we can be thankful, and we can reflect on the joy we gave our beloved pets while they frolicked uncaring of what all too sudden would be a severing of their mortal coil. Watch over them, you are everything to them at this moment, and "now" is all they care about.
To us all, live for the moment, because you are only invincible for the moment past.
Bye to another Disc Dog.
1 Comments:
I'm sorry to hear of the loss of so many good friends of yours, human and canine. It has been a tough year in the dog world (great danes) that I know as well, so I understand. My own great girl, Indy, passed away last October from cancer, and I still miss her, as I do the dog before her and before that. I think when a good spirit leaves, whether it is a human or animal friend, they leave a space behind that just never quite closes up. I hope things pick up for you in the "good things that happen" department.
By Andrea, at 1:24 PM
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