i only had two walks today, having been given the day free by my other dogs. i'm always available for mister, even holidays. if it was a new thing i would probably just say, sorry, i don't work that way. this is different. this is ten years or so on, and this is
a relationship. anyway, you have to accept people how they are i guess, unless they change, as dogs and people do, sometimes- then you may be grateful if their respect and regard grows. i often don't think people treat people as they wish to be treated themselves. i think they see themselves as separate, and deserving of the unique respect they deserve. and of course they are, deserving. what they deserve. maybe i don't deserve it, didn't earn it. but maybe it's like freedom, it doesn't need to be given, because then it can easily be taken away, we know this in the land of freedom, it isn't a given thing. maybe it's just something we have for ourselves, something they cannot take away. though there is little respect in this culture of individual freedom. i feel i deserve more respect, but we get the respect not that we deserve perhaps, but what the other person feels.
you may be saying holy fuck, doug, it's just a walk! too true, and now i don't have to watch them freely trashing our beautiful crumbling place, like those drunk schlubs yesterday.
post dat.
it wasn't quite as i felt, perhaps. i'm sensitive to slights, and sometimes i can't imagine being respected. anyway, i was ready to let it go after my little essay, but now the dialogue is opened up, and i may walk mister this afternoon after all. i had planned on the holiday with mister. the nationalistic holiday is a hollow sham, but with mister it's a real holiday and free. if we go and those drunk schlubs are there, i'm going to say, i thought you said you love this place? why do you trash it then? but i know the answer, that's how we do it, that's freedom in america the great.
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