A little hope at the end of the remote.....

I was in a bad mood today. No particular reason.... just bitter at the planet and every conversation I had seemed to steer in the direction of a fierce rant on my part, and the person I was talking to almost ran from me each time. Everything irritated me today.... my own face, breakfast, work meetings, my cell phone ringing, the weather.... you name it and I was pissed about it today. And just when I thought I was going to have to heavily medicate myself to sleep by drinking all the NyQuil and Tylenol sleepy time in my cabinets, I find a little dose of hope on a late night talk show.

So the story goes like this....
over 150 channels to choose from, and still nothing was on..... I had been flipping the guide station on and off for over 3 hours, and not watched more than 5 minutes of anything. Something did catch my eye, which was a black german shepherd dog with a little badge hanging around its neck. So as I usually do with critters on the tv ( I get that from my mom) I pause and see what's up with this dog..... turns out I am watching the Ellen show, and this 10 year old girl in California has been collecting pennies she finds on the street, or that people will give her, to buy bullet-proof vests for police dogs. How adorable and amazing is that! I started to cry like a 10 year old... seemed fitting... and wanted to immediately sell my car and half my belongings and send the profits to her. At $400 a pop, she has managed to buy 20 vests to date. Ellen of course being the super human that she is, pulled out $400 cash and stuck it in a coffee can and then passed the can around the audience. The folks at Pedigree or Purina (can't remember, was sobbing like a sissy girl) donated $10,000 to her program as well.

All my anger and irritation was gone. I sometimes wonder why we insist on letting adults run the world..... more often then not I am inspired by a kid. Their young minds have yet to be tainted by the world around them. And I can imagine people reading this and thinking "that's silly, you can't save the world". That lovely statement only made by people who are too damn selfish and lazy to ever act on something they believe in, or they simply don't believe in anything. And to those out there who may think that way.... there are 20 dogs in California that would tell you differently if they could speak your language, and 20 more officers who know their furry partners are much safer at work.

And this all started because a little girl was watching the news one night and saw that a K-9 officer was shot and killed, and that made her mad. So she ran to her mom and said "if they keep us safe, we should do more to keep them safe".... and so http://www.protect-a-dog.com/ was born.

So thank you 10 year old Alyssa Mayorga from California for reminding me what life is really all about.