The Dog Who Waited His Whole Life
The kind of loyalty we see in the average dog is far less common among human beings.
When a remarkable dog comes along, people are awe-stricken.
Hachiko who lived in Japan was just such a dog.
Today there is a statue to remember him.
Hachiko waited for his owner to get off a train after work every day. One day his owner died at work from a brain hemorrhage and didn't show up.
Hachiko kept waiting. Every day he came back to the train station to wait...every day for the rest of his life, which was about a decade after the death of the one he was waiting for.
The man he was waiting for never came.
What would compel this particular dog to such unshakeable devotion is a mystery.
It moves us. We all want to hold on to believing in love that never dies.
But that's not what we see in this war-torn planet riddled with hate and depression and relationship break ups and the commonly seen casual and disposable way humans treat other humans today.
The statue people built shows that humans admire that of which they themselves are incapable.
We don't love like this dog did.
But we want to believe that we could be loved like that, that a love and devotion like that could be hoped for as attainable.
its not a real dog its a statute
If I dropped a statue on my keyboard, it might write something more advanced than you ever have. 😉
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