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Sindhura K, 4/4 ETM Posted on - 27.07.09

FINALLy A DOg!
There were only two things in life I feared the most.
1) Perfectionists
2) dogs
Now perfectionists you can understand. They are over exacting and treat us like worms if you fail to measure up to their standards. But dogs? Honestly, dogs? Well, dogs and I go a long way back and mine is a classic example of ‘once bitten, twice shy’. Quite literally. I once had a dog that happened to bite me when I was a kid and that's it. Doggy phobia! After the dog in question died (I feel guilty for sharing this but I actually felt relieved!), I opted for a complete dog free world. I made sure I had at least a 100 feet gap between me and a dog. A lot of people ask me to this day if my dog died after it bit me and then laugh at their own joke.Yeah, like we could have it any other way. I mean how many dogs do you know that come back from their doggy heaven or wherever dogs go to after they die to get a chunk of their still alive and kicking owner? Even though I consider myself quite unconventional and believe in a lot of crackpot theories, my answer to the above question would be nada.

So imagine my surprise when after spending 12 years of my life in fear of dogs, I fell in love with a cute, grey puppy from our college. I found the pup right outside our ECAD lab in the ECE block. It walked towards me unsteadily and looked at me with such trust that I decided immediately that I was going to take it home. The only problem was to convince my parents. Toughest job in the universe but I managed it somehow. But they agreed on one condition. The dog had to be a male. So the next day before going home, I went straight to the litter, found my little grey pup and after some nudging and prodding (yeww!), arrived at the conclusion that it was a male. Yippee!!

However I had to wait for a day because my brother had an exam and I didn't want to distract him. That day at home I was incredibly happy and very relaxed. I was searching for a name for my dog and almost settled on 'Lucky' when I received the news.The pup had died in an accident. Apparently someone was driving recklessly on the roads. When I first got the news my only reaction was 'WHAATT??’. Seriously, that's how I felt at the moment.

That night I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about the dog that couldn't be mine. I was probably the last person to have seen it alive, to have held it. Should I have made sure that the dog didn't venture onto the roads? I blamed the dog's murderer for a while. Can’t people be more careful when they drive? The irony, however, was not lost on me. All my life I wanted nothing to do with dogs but when I finally wanted one, it simply dies. Though it may sound heavy, that day I realized a very important truth of life. All our lives, we are waiting for that special something or someone to come along and when it finally does happen, we realize that it is way out of our reach. No matter how hard we try to reach out, it is not going to happen. I guess, some things in life are just never meant to be...

Soon I adopted another dog from the same litter. Again a cute, little grey puppy and though it is female, my parents miraculously gave their nod .And as for the name? I call her Lucky.

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GO TO HOME	Sindhura K, 4/4 ETM Posted on - 27.07.09 FINALLy A DOg! There were only two things in life I feared the most. 1) Perfectionists 2) dogs Now perfectionists you can understand. They are over exacting and treat us like worms if you fail to measure up to their standards. But dogs? Honestly, dogs? Well, dogs and I go a long way back and mine is a classic example of ‘once bitten, twice shy’. Quite literally. I once had a dog that happened to bite me when I was a kid and that's it. Doggy phobia! After the dog in question died (I feel guilty for sharing this but I actually felt relieved!), I opted for a complete dog free world. I made sure I had at least a 100 feet gap between me and a dog. A lot of people ask me to this day if my dog died after it bit me and then laugh at their own joke.Yeah, like we could have it any other way. I mean how many dogs do you know that come back from their doggy heaven or wherever dogs go to after they die to get a chunk of their still alive and kicking owner? Even though I consider myself quite unconventional and believe in a lot of crackpot theories, my answer to the above question would be nada. So imagine my surprise when after spending 12 years of my life in fear of dogs, I fell in love with a cute, grey puppy from our college. I found the pup right outside our ECAD lab in the ECE block. It walked towards me unsteadily and looked at me with such trust that I decided immediately that I was going to take it home. The only problem was to convince my parents. Toughest job in the universe but I managed it somehow. But they agreed on one condition. The dog had to be a male. So the next day before going home, I went straight to the litter, found my little grey pup and after some nudging and prodding (yeww!), arrived at the conclusion that it was a male. Yippee!! However I had to wait for a day because my brother had an exam and I didn't want to distract him. That day at home I was incredibly happy and very relaxed. I was searching for a name for my dog and almost settled on 'Lucky' when I received the news.The pup had died in an accident. Apparently someone was driving recklessly on the roads. When I first got the news my only reaction was 'WHAATT??’. Seriously, that's how I felt at the moment. That night I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about the dog that couldn't be mine. I was probably the last person to have seen it alive, to have held it. Should I have made sure that the dog didn't venture onto the roads? I blamed the dog's murderer for a while. Can’t people be more careful when they drive? The irony, however, was not lost on me. All my life I wanted nothing to do with dogs but when I finally wanted one, it simply dies. Though it may sound heavy, that day I realized a very important truth of life. All our lives, we are waiting for that special something or someone to come along and when it finally does happen, we realize that it is way out of our reach. No matter how hard we try to reach out, it is not going to happen. I guess, some things in life are just never meant to be... Soon I adopted another dog from the same litter. Again a cute, little grey puppy and though it is female, my parents miraculously gave their nod .And as for the name? I call her Lucky.

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