Sitting at my desk looking at Buddy, I start wondering what he doesn’t like. He pretty much eats anything, appreciates the weather come rain or shine and he is always friendly and grateful for everything. He’s always happy and very seldom shows sadness (unless he gets scolded for begging for food). Then it dawns on me; we should be more like dogs. We should be able to appreciate more things in life not because of them being present everyday but especially the things we take for granted. But we have grown to dislike a lot of things.
Last week the big news of Facebook implementing a ‘dislike’ button rocked the web and the internet trolls rejoiced at the news! Trolls live under bridges and pretty much hate everything and the scary part? We are becoming trolls more than we’d like to admit. As founder Mark Zuckerberg explained, the ‘dislike’ button will be implemented in the hopes of users being more emphatic towards news and as soon as he said that I realised how far we have drifted from becoming like dogs and liking everything.
We have fed and created this monster of opinions and gave everyone a voice to raise concern over the state of our nation up to the incident of the lady who didn’t indicate when she made the turn to almost cause a 42 car pile-up across the ‘geduld brug’. To top it off we gave that power a physical manifestation in the form of a ‘dislike’ button and boy are we going to use it.
To dislike is human, but to understand is divine. We tend to grab onto a subject matter we feel passionate about and dislike everything else that doesn’t fall in those confides and we do it with everything from food to politics and everything in between and the sooner we realise it is ok that people like things you don’t, the better life can be.
Laying on my bed with Buddy next to me I wonder what he doesn’t like and I found out that when I’m giving another dog attention besides him he really ‘dislikes’ it but hey; I’m only human.
