Unfettered

Hachiko ( died in 1935)

I am an uncurable weeper!

Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), the story of a dog waiting for nine years for his deceased master, has proved to be the script for procuring bucket loads of tears. Films are supposed to be like that too, following that  careful orchestration of emotions, sullied only by timeline and some of  the characters in it.

Still it touched me as no film has ever.

The purity in that dogs' heart.To have such a thing and an emotion beating within him, harbouring no doubt for the man he belongs. 

Cut from that to the usual jodi on the street. At the best of our days we are good pickers of problems who find mirth in blowing nonsense into volcanic proportions. And then with all due ignorance, wonder where all the love has gone.

Hachiko arches his eyes up to ask us- whether we ever loved anyone more than ourselves? Even in an ' I love you', precedence is for the I than the you.

Me and you can never be that dog who waited for nine long years. Without losing hope and sanity. Thank heavens though that there will always be a Hachi to remember. To tell children about how he braved the odds for simple joys like jumping with both his paws on his master's chest.

 Have you been lucky to taste that sort of  unfettered love in your life?