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Bobaji The Sidecar Dog
If you're reading this, you've already met Bobaji. He's the dog in the video. If you haven't met him yet, here's the video. Feel free to watch it again. See if you can identify any of the famous places he's visited.
You might think that assimilating the life of an animal into one's human life the way I have is foolish. Maybe that's because you don't sit where I sit and see what I see every day. Imagine that people who normally would look through you as if you were empty air look directly at you and smile.
Imagine that they tilt their heads back and laugh, the therapeutic kind of laugh that judging by the creases on their faces they haven't had in days or weeks.
Imagine that these anonymous people, for whom you normally would be just another anonymous face, turn back to you after they've had their good laugh or muscle-relaxing smile and give you a big thumbs up.
Imagine that instead of feeling anonymous and numb, in that moment you feel alive and know that you've made an impact on someone's life, no matter how small, that may be remembered for years to come. And imagine what a good feeling that is. Then imagine having that feeling a dozen times a day. Can you imagine becoming addicted to it?
Here you can follow our quest to turn the dozens of feelgood moments we share with otherwise anonymous people on a daily basis into a comprehensive feelgood experience that will not just feel good but actually do good.
Most of my friends, acquaintances and family think I'm nuts. They see me working like the proverbial dog on a concept that over the past 18 months has cost me my life's savings and has not brought in one penny of reward beyond the thousands of feelgood moments described above. Either they don't believe that thousands of feel-good moments can be consolidated into a larger feelgood experience or they don't see the value of those feelgood moments in the first place.
And the only possible reason for this that I can see is that they don't sit where I sit and see what I see on a daily basis.
If they did, they would understand.
You might think that assimilating the life of an animal into one's human life the way I have is foolish. Maybe that's because you don't sit where I sit and see what I see every day. Imagine that people who normally would look through you as if you were empty air look directly at you and smile.
Imagine that they tilt their heads back and laugh, the therapeutic kind of laugh that judging by the creases on their faces they haven't had in days or weeks.
Imagine that these anonymous people, for whom you normally would be just another anonymous face, turn back to you after they've had their good laugh or muscle-relaxing smile and give you a big thumbs up.
Imagine that instead of feeling anonymous and numb, in that moment you feel alive and know that you've made an impact on someone's life, no matter how small, that may be remembered for years to come. And imagine what a good feeling that is. Then imagine having that feeling a dozen times a day. Can you imagine becoming addicted to it?
Here you can follow our quest to turn the dozens of feelgood moments we share with otherwise anonymous people on a daily basis into a comprehensive feelgood experience that will not just feel good but actually do good.
Most of my friends, acquaintances and family think I'm nuts. They see me working like the proverbial dog on a concept that over the past 18 months has cost me my life's savings and has not brought in one penny of reward beyond the thousands of feelgood moments described above. Either they don't believe that thousands of feel-good moments can be consolidated into a larger feelgood experience or they don't see the value of those feelgood moments in the first place.
And the only possible reason for this that I can see is that they don't sit where I sit and see what I see on a daily basis.
If they did, they would understand.
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