As promised in the last post, here is another episode from the Punter-Niki Love Story. But it comes with a highlight. Unlike all other posts of the Photo Fables feature, this post has three pictures instead of one. Needless to say, this was a prerequisite.
Days before Punt shared the 'Cake pic' with me, he shared another set of pics which spelt havoc.
Pillows torn apart and their innards strewn all over the floor. Some pillows which luckily survived were peeping out of their covers in excruciating pain, begging for help. A closer look at the two pics Punt shared revealed that disaster had struck in two different rooms with similar looming intensity. Being a man of few words, Punt lined these photos that he shared with, "Look what I came home to just now!"
Check out what the scene was for yourself:
The only silver lining being that before further mess, he was home from office. So, only the damage that was done, was done.
Now, being the cleanliness-and-organized-freak myself, I could only imagine what I would have felt or done in that case. In the first pic, the way you see Punt pretty much tells the whole story. I asked him what happened and he told me that it had been snowing for the last many days. So nobody could take Niki out for a walk. Since she was home all day, with no one to pay her any attention, she was probably feeling "too bored" and this is what she did to entertain herself!
"Bored". Really?! No, I mean, Seriously, Really??!!
I was in a daze wondering how my friend would be feeling coming home to this mess, and that too when he is still a bachelor (If he had a wife, probably she would have helped him clean up, or fixed him something to eat while he cleaned up, was what I was thinking). I thought he would be hungry and tired after calling it a day in office, and instead of feeding himself, here he had to fix up the room first and all this while keeping Niki "sufficiently entertained" so that she does not stage such innocent yet supposed threat-inciting behavior again.
While I was reeling in this self induced moronic stupor, pinch-zooming over and over the above pics and having all these strange thoughts in my head, Punt send me another message that was quick and potent enough to put my assumed efficiency to shame.
He had vacuum cleaned the mess, put everything in order and placed Niki again on her throne before clicking this new pic and sharing with me.
Take a look for yourself:
Punt taught me an amazing lesson that day. While I had wasted precious minutes of my life, never to get them back, going haywire about what I would have done in this situation, here was my dear friend who was so conscious and acceptable of his pet's behavior. And so much loving that he 'let go' and did what he was supposed to do.
This, is the power of "Patience", that comes from the power of "Love", that comes from the power of "Unconditional Acceptance".
Amigo, may your tribe increase...!!!
