Thank You To Our Puppy

You have shown me how to love again

The other day, I wrote a story detailing how our new puppy has changed mine and my family's life, within months. It’s been truly miraculous.

Hence, on the back of that, I felt it would be rather appropriate to write my first story for Thank You Notes, expressing my gratitude to him.

Seven years ago, I fell in love with a man. Deeply fell in love with him. I didn’t actually know it was humanly possible to love someone that much, it was bordering on being frightening.

We were never to meant to be, not because our relationship didn’t work out. In fact, we were never in a relationship. It was one of those film worthy love story types, where we would have been together in “a different world, a different time” etc etc etc.

Unsurprisingly, I was left heartbroken, fell into a deep depression, lost all faith in life, shut down relationships around me from people who truly cared about me, and my-oh-my did the walls go up.

1000 foot walls, kinda level.

For the past 7 years, I have been navigating how to get around life with the remnants of pain that that situation left behind. I have struggled to connect with people, resentment towards family and friends has only grown (for a multitude of reasons, some logical, others not) and all in all, had a not-so-great time.

A very typical, “existing, but not living” situation.

A few months ago our rather teddy bear-looking puppy, wagged his tail into our lives.

And all I can say is that I think I have fallen in love with him.

The love I have for that gorgeous little puppy, who joyously wags his tail every time he sees me, is just something else. How on earth, could it not be reciprocated from me?

He has shown me that I am capable of loving again. I am not broken. I have the capacity to love life, to feel, to laugh without holding back, to feel content, and to love unconditionally.

When I look at him, I can’t help but smile, I become so proud of him whenever he learns a new skill, my heart fills with joy whenever I see his tail wag ferociously any time he sees me and I laugh with a pure sense of happiness at each instant he does something weird and wonderful.

All this from one 4 and a half-month-old puppy, is something quite spectacular in my opinion.

But most importantly? He has given me hope.

Something I haven’t experienced a whole lot of in the last seven years.

So thank you, Rocky. Boy, do I appreciate you.

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