The will of Dog

Today my wife was eating a cinnamon roll. Our toy poodle stared at the pastry as if by the force of her desire she could compel the food to come her way. She stared as sections were broken off and consumed.

She did recieve bite-sized scraps to insure her digestive track didn't receive too large a shock. Once the roll was eaten, she had to be content from what she consumed.

My dog's behavior looks a lot like me. There are things I want that I may or may not get, but I stare at them none the less, hoping that my will will send my desires my way. The truth is that if I got what I wanted, if I got to eat the whole "cinnamon roll" it wouldn't make me feel any more content. In fact, it may create in me a stronger sense of discontentment, because it would remove one more thing that I believed would make me happy, and I realize after I got the prize, that I'm still not happy.