One of the benefits of forcing yourself and your date to go through a list of date ideas is that you get to experience really cool stuff. On this volunteering date, we went to a dog shelter. We got to feed the more than two hundred doggos and walked with some of them. The place is kind of overwhelming at first. You can compare it with a touristy souk or mall (Dubai Mall, is that you?). Many things are going on at the same time. Loads of people bumping into you. Countless flashy distractions grabbing your attention. However, when you have a mission (“I need to buy stainless steel bubble tea straws”), it’s manageable. Okay, this isn’t supposed to be a Google review of the dog shelter place. Let’s get back to business.
There are three types of people in the world. Those who love animals: they would bring their pets to a luxurious animal spa, feed them the nectar of gods 6.9 times a day, and go sleep in a cardboard box because inflation is the silent killer and their animals’ unconditional love is simply priceless. The second type are the animal haters: they would kick their friend’s dog when they are alone in the room, fake-smile when someone is showing cute animal pictures while mentally rolling their eyes, and spread poison like it’s bread for ducks. The third type are the neutral ones: they enjoy a steak without much guilt, binge watch in awe different animal documentaries, and feel disgusted when someone is making out with a dog. I’m in this category. I wouldn’t wear a t-shirt with “animals = lyfe” but I got one with a panda wearing boxing gloves.
It has always intrigued me why some people treat animals so well, but not blink an eye when faced with human suffering. My date stuffed her car with newly bought pillows and blankets as well as multiple cartons of dog food. Yes, the doggies will suffer without donations and contributions but so will many people. What is right or wrong, or good or bad is not the point here. People make their own choices for certain reasons and you have to live with it. Someone wants to get married with an unstable person after dating a couple of weeks, what to do. Your friend is complaining about how emotionally unavailable his/her partner is, here we go again. Popping antibiotics again to cure a case of chlamydia, doesn’t matter, had unprotected fun.
Sometimes life is just too short to try to understand it all. It seems futile to attempt to grasp every single chapter of someone’s life history. I feel in some situations a “whatever” is more suited than “I really want to understand you”. Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave.
I know you’re all dying to know what the most splashy moment of the volunteering was. Well, the dog I was walking decided to unleash (leash, you see what I did there hehe) his diarrhoea in front of the main entrance.
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