A Story About a Lazy Dog

One day after I had lunch I was enjoying tea in the front terrace of my home. On the opposite house’s brick fence I noticed a very skinny shabby dog. She was watching me with really sad eyes.
I remembered that I still had some warm food left from the lunch so I took it and put it on the ground near the fence. The dog longingly looked at the food for a while but was scared to jump off – the brick fence was too high.  She started marching back and forth balancing herself on the narrow brick wall and always watching the food with hungry eyes.
I saw her saliva stretching to the brick wall – it looked like she hadn’t eaten for a long time. However this hunger she felt didn’t inspire her to go far enough to get to the lowering part of the fence where she would be able to jump to the ground and take the food.
I felt sorry for the dog so I went further down where the wall was lowering and I could reach the top of it. I put some food on top, constantly calling the dog to come. This lowering of the wall was covered by some tree branches and so the dog couldn’t see if I left any food there. She kept staring at me but didn’t bother to find out if I left some food. Shortly crows discovered this food and quickly ate it.
The dog looked confused at this stage: sometimes she would march back and forth, sometimes she would sit and stare at me with sad eyes, sometimes she would whine. It looked like she was waiting for me to come up with the solution of how to give her food. She left this decision making wholly to me, without playing any part in it.
Finally I went straight to where the dog was sitting and with some difficulty managed to reach the top of the fence and leave some food there. Then, only then, the dog ate the food.
This incident reminded me of a common attitude many people share when they desire to have something. They want something greatly but are not willing to change their ways or do some work to get it. Many expect someone to help them get their desires, so they display the same behaviour like a dog waiting on the fence for me to give her food.
Even if they don’t expect some person to help them, they wait for the circumstances to get better. So they sit and wait… Sit and wait… Until they realise that their desires will never be achieved.
They really lack faith that through their work they will get what they want so they wait for something outside of themselves to change and hope to get their desires then. They imagine that working towards their desires would be very hard, but usually it’s very easy.
The key here is to start taking action and try different things. When some action produces positive results, keep repeating it and magnify it for more positive results – it’s that easy!
And although that dog was lucky that I still had some food left and made an effort to feed her, the same “luck” might not visit a person desiring to get something but not willing to change his ways for it. Therefore for those who really want to achieve their desires, it’s important to take the destiny in their own hands and not leave it hoping that lucky circumstances will visit them.