Random Deep Thought

I just learned some pretty deep stuff from my pit bull Rosie and from footprints outside in the snow.


Lesson 1. Rosie commits 100% to the balls out celebration of everything she experiences. Everything. No scrap of food or whiff of scent is too small for complete attention and investigation. Cake and cat shit get equal time attention and apparently, enjoyment. Rosie is always happy.


Lesson 2. Small animal prints in my back yard illustrated the following scenario: A cat entered the yard from the north west corner heading in a south easterly direction. Upon reaching the approximate center of the yard it circled 3 times and had a poop. The cat then continued in to the SE and exited the yard. Small human prints along side the cat prints coming FROM the SE to the NW  show that a child took the time to get bundled up for the snow found a stick, followed the prints to the approximate center of the yard, circled the poop 3 times, poked it with the stick, discarded the stick and then exited the yard by tramping through the bushes along the fence. I read somewhere that the average 6 year old laughs 100s of times a day. They are almost always happy.


What I got from both was that being curious is good. Anything that catches our attention in this overstimulating busy world is worth stopping and investigating and learning more. Why not go poke poop with a stick or spend eleven minutes rolling in blankets and enjoy every single minute of it? Dedicate your whole body to a sneeze? Are we afraid of being caught doing something sort of gross or people thinking we're a big nerd? Do we think we don't have time to pick up a book on an interesting subject or look it up on Wikipedia?


Dammit, I'm going to start MAKING the time, I have a smart phone, a net book and a PC. I am capable of Googling anything anywhere! I even know how to use the Dewey Decimal System to go to the Library!


 I'm going to satisfy my curiosity from now on. I might learn a whole lot of pretty useless crap. I think I might find some things I really like too.I might just spend time on mental masturbation, but the brain needs some lovin too. Its only fair.