Altering the Apocalypse: and Other Short Stories About Humans and Time Travel by Fred Phillips

Altering the Apocalypse: and Other Short Stories About Humans and Time Travel by Fred Phillips

Author:Fred Phillips [Phillips, Fred]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-05-06T06:00:00+00:00


It’s a Dog Life

Looking around the house, it’s easy to grasp the simplicity of life. Dogs don't need much. There's a downy bed, an old blanket, and a white bone in one room. A different room contains another bed, a plastic toy, and a rawhide bone. In still another room there is a food dish and a water bowl. Scattered in other parts of the home are tennis balls, a rope toy, and an old, deflated football. Circumstantial evidence of a happy home for human and dog.

“C’mon here, boy. Wanna a treat?”

Excuse me for a moment.

Dogs don't care where the food they eat comes from, they don't care if their toys cost twenty bucks or were found abandoned at the park. They don't need blankets or clothing or even downy soft beds. It's an uncomplicated life, one devoid of conceit, arrogance, and the meanderings of ego.

It's a simple life, one without fear of the unknown, anxiety about health, and dread about mortality. The toys provide pleasure and play, the bed and blanket rest and recovery, the bowls sustenance and satisfaction. The house provides a place, nothing more, and nothing less. Life is about enjoyment rather than specific things. At first glance, it seems more primitive and elementary. But, with patience comes understanding and enlightenment about the meaning of existence, something humans seem to lack as a collective group.

Dogs have more going on in their brains than humans can imagine.

When you think about time as it relates to dogs, what do you think about? That they don’t know the difference between five minutes or five hours? That their internal clocks can’t process anything longer than a short walk or a quick meal? That they miss you just as much if you leave the house for ten minutes as they do when you leave for ten hours? That one human year is equal to seven dog years?

But, my kind, us canines, we understand way more about time than we let on. Especially those of us who were once human. Yes, time travel and reincarnation wrapped up into one incomprehensible treat.

Dogs have far more complex thoughts than you would think, yet we live uncomplicated and worry-fee lives. Go figure.

Each day is a simple story, unconnected to the next or the previous one. It's not an unending series of dramas or comedies, interconnected and relying on the previous day to create the scene for the next.

But, it takes living in both worlds to understand what is missing in one.

Here’s the hard part for humans to grasp. I’ve been a human and now I’m a dog. I was once something else, I’m sure of it. There are humans who were once dogs, but they have forgotten their canine past and the effortless grasp of time and space they once had. I don’t know why dogs remember and humans forget – perhaps because the arrogance of believing you sit atop the food chain clouds your mind and consciousness.

Their bigger brains got in the way of clarity and understanding.



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