Companionship

All in a day it goes pass between us like any other. A routine we might call it. In the mornings, I wake to greet you ‘Good morning’ in my sleepy tone. I check on you and provide for your basic needs. You return my actions with your sniff and big bright appreciative eyes. When I return after I had been gone for half the day, I can see that you get all excited with that hop in your gait. By night, I tell you it is time to sleep and I leave you in your place with the lights off. Our days seem to pass by simply. You getting excited and me reciprocating in actions necessary to keep you calm and happy.

I enjoy providing for your basic needs. I like it best when I take more than an hour to groom you. You will ‘sing’ out your disagreements but I would still continue doing what I do until I make you as pretty as I can again. Every week, this happens.

There are days when you give me accidents. Sometimes I feel that they were done intentionally. Perhaps you wanted more attention from me? I thought about that too. You can be a rascal in your own way. So much so that I would reprimand you and ignore you for the rest of the day. But tomorrow always starts off brand new like any other day starts off between us.

When I have to send you away on a vacation. I may look fine like it did not matter. But when I get home. I feel that emptiness. I feel that stillness when I look at your resting spot in the house. You would creep back into my mind with me remembering your absence in the house no matter how busy or an enjoyable time I was having without you around. During those days without you, your name would find its way out of my mouth in random conversations with another.

Time and years just pass over us easily and we seem so indifferent to it.

The days we have between us lately have not been easy to pass on like those before. I make more effort to pay a closer attention to your needs. Your comfort is my solace these days. I hope you are doing well. I hope that I do not have to make a choice to let you go for the better. The big eyes you still look at me with, your energy, your ‘singing’ and your wanting me to be around you gives me the pushing factor to keep moving on alongside you in the positive direction. The attachment I have for you that We all may have previously took for granted seems to grow more and more these days. I believe you feel the same in your own way too however complicated our situation may be now.

I enjoy knowing you although we do not exchange hugs and kisses like others do. I enjoy poking fun at you. I enjoy your simple companionship. I enjoy cuddling you. I wish it would last for as long as time allows. Like how Lilo said to Stitch. I would say to you too the same. “Ohana” means family. You will always be a part of my family.