I dreamt I was a dog. Running full pell through the long wet grass, enjoying every moment as it came and went, not a second of my existence spent worrying about a future I knew nothing about
I laid panting on some cool concrete and watched the humans busily rushing back and forth, shouting, crying, laughing in a language I didn’t understand, trying to stick to their 5-year plans, buying and selling, hoping their second house investment was a good one, fighting wars for oil, or land, or because their God is a better God, a vengeful God, the only God
And I close my eyes
When I wake, I find a stick, and I busy myself throwing it around, enjoying the stick for all that it is. Then I see another dog, with a better stick, and I think “I might fight him for it”