Random Blog 1 (Meet Toby)

Toby is my 3 yr old, Shih Tzu. He is a very expensive dog with very expensive taste. He prefers to be hand fed bacon bits and boiled eggs than kibble out of a bowl. He will cry if you don't pet him as soon as you wake up in the morning. He will cry when you don't feed him off your plate. He will bark at the birds in the balcony, at the doorbell as soon as it rings. Honestly, he will bark at anything and anyone he doesn't recognise.

Toby is confident yet shy. He is brave, yet timid, He's fiercely loyal yet would trade his family in for a strip of bacon. In many ways, Toby is like all of us, scared to take on the world around him, but powering through nonetheless, one step at a time. His confidence, like ours, is built upon the backs of the people who love him. His challenges may be limited fighting the big dogs at the park for sticks that they steal from him, but they are a reminder for us to not let what may seem like insurmountable obstacles stop us from achieving our goals. 

I learn something from Toby everyday. I learn how to attack everyday with hope and wonder. I learn how to love without expectation. I learn how to marvel at the gifts that the world around us gives us. In many ways, my tiny, ten-pound dog teaches be how to be more human, a lesson that I will always be grateful for.