You know, right outside my perch on the soft couch is a piazza filled, in the mornings and afternoons, with adolescent anthros. Tall ones, short ones, shy ones, aggressive ones, some with lots of that beautiful hair that the Italians seem to have no matter what age (except for mainly bald men starting around their 20s!—another phenomenon), and these kids are NICE kids. They horse around (whatever that is) and they tell each other jokes and they rib each other and some smoke, but most do not, and they look so damned innocent and young and when I look out on their good humor or sometimes, adolescent angst, whatever that is, and I think, maybe there is hope for the world after all.
Maybe there are enough young anthros in the world, at least in a civilized world, to guide others in getting joy out of life instead of harboring such feelings of hopelessness that they become easy prey for cults and organizations who indoctrinate them to hate.
Maybe.
Maybe in these holidays you’ll turn to your neighbor and give him or her a smile and say something kind and observant and make him or her feel that he or she has been seen by another caring anthro and then maybe that anthro will do the same for yet another anthro and pretty soon there will be new feelings of hope among us and less sadness for our damaged planet.
Just a thought.
I think I’ll sidle up to mama right this minute and tell her how nice she looks when she’s opening up my Purina kibble bag or giving me that delicious malt paste after a nice brushing. I’m going to do that right now.
In a minute.
When I wake up.
But you don’t have to wait.
Hi LouLou: Yesterday morning (December 23) I started to give a small gift of $$ to the cashier at the place where I get my coffee every morning on my way to work. She said, oh I have to ask my manager, I don’t know if I can take this. Her manager said yes and she said that no one had ever done that before. Such a small thing made her so happy and 3 other customers said Merry Christmas to me on our way out. You are so right about kindness LouLou and so very wise.
Oh, you are so kind and we like doing little things, too, especially when no one knows about it or who did it…such fun! Thank you for being so kind to a person who clearly needs kindness.
You never know what you’ll get in return for being nice to someone. Hopefully some tasty treats!
Or a good, LOOOOOOOONG rub.
We agree! There should be a “smile at the next person you see” day…
Have a super Sunday.
Noodle and crew
Well, I loved your blog today and put a link to it on mine. Very perceptive.
Does this mean we’re supposed to tell Jan how nice she looks so she’ll open up our food? You do know if we do it once, she’ll expect it every time and since there are a lot of us, she could get a swelled head and then she wouldn’t even be able to find her feet, let alone our food. We could starve! Can we just say thank you?
Hey, thank you is a START. But yeah, tell her EVERY DAY.