SHHHH, my dog doesn't know I am writing this about her...
My dog sometimes eats her own poop. There, I've said it. Now the dirty little secret we have been living with for the last 11 years is out. I do know that she isn't the only dog in the world that eats their own poop AND I am happy to say that she doesn't do it every time that she poops. But still, it's a pretty disgusting habit and one that I am not proud to divulge other than it caused me to think about crap in general and what we as humans do with our own crap.
It dawned on me on an early morning walk with Ella that her habit of eating poop is not unlike something that we two legged beings do a lot of the time too. I run into it pretty often when doing hand readings. Even friends do it. And I also have to admit to doing it myself a time or two. The human equivalent of eating our own crap.
What?! You know, that bad habit that you can't give up. Every time you say "never again" but do it again anyway. And as disgusted as we may get with ourselves, sometimes we just can't help ourselves. I think in a way because it's familiar to us, after all, it is our own crap, the stuff we have been carrying around with us all this time. And putting up with it and metaphorically eating it over and over again, enables us to hide it from others. And sometimes even ourselves - or at least that's what we think.
Is it bad for us? Will we die from it? Likely not, as Ella is proof that after 11 years eating her own she hasn't. But would I rather that she not do that? Certainly! Would I prefer to not eat the metaphorical crap of my life over and over again? Well of course. What will it take? Just recognizing it for what it is, telling ourselves "no". Maybe asking a trusted friend to help us with that "no" or if they are willing to help us clean up our crap by reminding us it's CRAP.
It's what I do for Ella - a good stern no when she's going for the goods or just making sure that it's not there to tempt her. The bottom line, is that I love her despite her bad habits and I will always be there with a properly interjected "no" or clean up job. Now to do that for myself....
It dawned on me on an early morning walk with Ella that her habit of eating poop is not unlike something that we two legged beings do a lot of the time too. I run into it pretty often when doing hand readings. Even friends do it. And I also have to admit to doing it myself a time or two. The human equivalent of eating our own crap.
What?! You know, that bad habit that you can't give up. Every time you say "never again" but do it again anyway. And as disgusted as we may get with ourselves, sometimes we just can't help ourselves. I think in a way because it's familiar to us, after all, it is our own crap, the stuff we have been carrying around with us all this time. And putting up with it and metaphorically eating it over and over again, enables us to hide it from others. And sometimes even ourselves - or at least that's what we think.
Is it bad for us? Will we die from it? Likely not, as Ella is proof that after 11 years eating her own she hasn't. But would I rather that she not do that? Certainly! Would I prefer to not eat the metaphorical crap of my life over and over again? Well of course. What will it take? Just recognizing it for what it is, telling ourselves "no". Maybe asking a trusted friend to help us with that "no" or if they are willing to help us clean up our crap by reminding us it's CRAP.
It's what I do for Ella - a good stern no when she's going for the goods or just making sure that it's not there to tempt her. The bottom line, is that I love her despite her bad habits and I will always be there with a properly interjected "no" or clean up job. Now to do that for myself....
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