Fear

Did a little experiment with my doggo. Well to be more specific she's not mine but my younger sister's. Anyway some background story about the dog, whenever it rains she'll start trembling, her breathing intensified, she'll scratch on your door if you let her outside, she'll try to climb over your bed when you're trying to sleep and constantly pace around and over you, not caring if her saliva is dripping on you or not. Well that's horrible. I couldn't stand it and let her outside so I could sleep. Noise is better than physical disturbance eh.
So it was raining this morning and I grasped the chance to figure out what is this doggo's problem with the rain once and for all. I followed her around, I asked her questions again and again, I tried different actions to see her changed reactions, like treating a crying baby you couldn't understand. I was devastated that technology today have so many different translators available on the market, why don't they have a doggo-to-human translator! Anyway in the end, I found out that she was actually afraid of the thunder, instead of the rain itself. She was anticipating thunder whenever it rains, you know, no rain no thunder. So I tried to simulate thunder by playing some YouTube video that I could get my hand on, of course the quality was not at all on par with the real deal, (not the video quality but my phone, mind you) at the same time comforting her that it was alright, and what do you expect! She gradually calmed down and me a happy boi.

If I had started this experiment I wouldn't have to suffer for so many years, looking back.

Choices & Probability

What are choices? We make choices every single day, hundreds, thousands, millions of them. Even the cells in our body makes choices all the time, albeit it's a simple one between a yes and no, every single one of them.

Sometimes we think we have no choices at all, or that we only have a single choice, that is to do or die. Even die itself is a choice. But in reality, is that really true? Choices are those that present themselves at that particular time and situation, in our best ability of understanding affected biologically or psychologically. However the truth is, we have unlimited amount of choices that we can make to deal with the situations at hand, just that we aren't AWARE of them.