Chapter 12
Dogs Have a Purpose
Dharma thought it was amusing that humans thought so much about their purpose. After all, dogs didn’t have to think much about it. A dog just knows. A dog just lives it every day. Yes, dogs have a purpose, and it is simply to love people unconditionally. She loved the old joke, “If you want to know who loves you unconditionally, lock your wife, your mother-in-law, and your dog in the trunk of your car. An hour later, open the trunk and notice who is happy to see you.” Yes, dogs don’t care what you do. They still love you, no matter what.
Humans become confused, Dharma thought, because they have a desire to learn and grow. It’s part of their design. They focus so much on the learning and growing that they forget the art of being. They focus so much on striving against one another that they forget they were made for loving one another. Humans were made to learn and grow. Dogs were made to just be. But both were made to love unconditionally. From Dharma’s point of view, people would be a lot better off if they learned to just be and to focus on loving unconditionally. Humans needed to simplify things and stop making everything so complicated.
If Dharma could talk, she would tell him to simplify and not let what you have to do at work get in the way of what you love to do. She knew that people don’t love everything they have to do in the course of their ...
