Midday Moment of Joy

Dash paused his zooming ever so briefly for a picture

I live a forty five minute drive from the ocean and took my dog for a walk on the beach yesterday and he was so excited by the beach that he pranced around, he zoomed, he darted. He chased the waves and ran into the surf and looked back at me like he couldn’t believe I was allowing this. He sniffed odd long protuberances of seaweed, he nosed and jumped at other dogs. His tail didn’t stop wagging, as if he was trying to get the words out: ‘Wow! Look at this! Look at this! Look at that! Ohmygosh, look over here!’

It was like watching a child on Christmas morning and it was exactly how I feel every time I get that close to the ocean. During the day it is mostly just me and Dash and I talk out loud to him so as I watched him dance his way down the beach I told him, “Same thing bud, I feel the same thing.”

Despite the fact that I was way behind on my To Do list for the day (week, year), in that moment I couldn’t be anything but completely happy. I had a figure-ground reversal, the To Do’s faded into the background, the joy took front and center. I could kind of, for a second, remember that the To Do’s are in service to the joy not the other way around.

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