# What life lessons have you learned from your pet?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 17, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-life-lessons-have-you-learned-from-your-pet/930749 "2021-01-17T18:49:45Z")\
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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> Are things going well in the moment? Then enjoy the moment. Don’t waste it all worrying about things that didn’t or might not go well at some other time.

Very wise words. Living in the moment is probably the greatest lesson our pets can teach us. Reminds me of the eloquent words of Wendell Berry:

> “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and I am free.”

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