A dog is man’s best friend – this idiom holds good nowadays for what I experience in my daily life. There are lot of canines which roam around freely in open streets of Delhi, we ignore many and may be shoo them off at a minor instance for our purpose of safety. Since childhood I have been born and bought on a thought to cohabit with pets – we had many during my adolescent years and it is then knowingly – unknowingly that I started to caress good feelings about them – they became a part of family within not time. Now that time has gone and after their unfortunate demise , we didn’t had a chance or an opportunity to have bred one , though my love for dogs has never died down and remains deep inside me.
Recently, out of nowhere a canine started to
visit our office – though quite intriguing, he sits on our pavement and also
tries to sneak inside the open space between the glass door! The first time he
came to our office- he made a long howl as a signal to call us and make his
presence felt.
This inquisition of his made me
open the glass door to see him wagging his tail out of some expectations. At
first I was not much convinced with his loving glance but as seconds passed I
was melted to the core and became his good friend – though the first day our
meeting just lasted some seconds but it created a valuable bond of trust amongst
ourselves. The next day I had an unexpected visitor already lining on our
office door – “Mitwa” as I named him at that very moment – his wagging of tail
was a clear signal of his ecstasy of seeing me again.
The uniqueness which captivates me towards this canine is his different looks – His seeing me with a sense of love and belongingness precipitates into a feeling of compassion towards him – May be he had some previous life bond with me or a “Prarabh” which we both have together. As far as his age, he seems to be about 12-14 years old – a statement I make, seeing his whitish beard and his rough nails. Mitwa roams alone and doesn’t seem to gel with other canines in that area – Quite often I have seen him posturing inside an ATM stall sheepishly resting to impending customers’ awe – many of whom may not enter the ATM seeing a dog making it as his resting paradise!
As I think about him now and then when I take a resting break, my eyes ponder over his whereabouts , just a sense of looking towards him give me an internal calmness- now that I have found a friend of a lifetime – his disposition bring me smile on everyone’s face who sees him and feeds him with loving care. His loving revert and a bond which we at marketplace share with Mitwa is a testimony and sense of reverence to our Great Mahatma – Gandhiji who once said “Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
