It's Enough, Already

Fog blankets the soybean field every morning at sunrise. We walk with ease next to the beans, each step providing a change in view of the sun creeping through the pines. I pause, close my eyes, and take a deep breath through my nose to fill my lungs with the crisp, clean morning air.

Mud, however, did not inform me of his decision to discard his dinner a few feet in front of me. My nose didn’t stand a chance. I could taste the leftover steak in the back of my throat.

A moment I hoped to be filled with natural beauty, Mud viewed as the perfect location for sanitational measures. The funny thing is, we were both right.

When we witness something bigger than ourselves, something majestic, something we had no hand in creating, the thought of changing it never crosses our mind. We accept it and are in awe of it, just as it is.

Dogs have a way of living every moment with this notion. Accepting each moment as a moment of perfection, just as it is. In moments where they do induce change, like herding a cow, they do so from a place of acceptance, not out of placing their self-content with something they can’t control. They’re happy with the moment, not the outcome.

Dogs accept moments as enough, already.