Dunkin…Dunkin…Dunkin…

Oh my little Dunkin, Dunkin, Dunkin, a-one-a-more-a time you teach me lessons I need to learn!

This morning my little Dunkin once again demanded attention of me at yet another time I really wanted to do something else…read the newspaper. She has this way of demanding to be the focus and knows when you only give half hearted attention to her too. She is way too smart!

She seems to have her “needs” often at times that I really do want and/or need to focus on something else like eat my breakfast, go to the bathroom, brush my teeth or yes read the newspaper. There are times I can more easily set aside what is my priority to give her 100 percent of me and other times I really have to do what I have to do.

This morning I reflected on how fortunate I am to have that little Dunkin in my life even at those most inopportune times. She won’t be here forever.

She almost wasn’t in our lives at all. There was another kitten in the cage with our three at the Human Society who was an actual sibling of our other two. Had another family not selected that kitten just before we arrived Dunkin would not have joined our family. And, that would have been a huge mistake. I remind her of that on occasion and apologize for having doubts about wanting her from the get go since I really thought at that time I wanted the other kitty not her!

Dunkin is a very special little one. There is only one Dunkin I tell her.

I’d best pick my priorities at any given moment in my life to seize the most important opportunity which that moment brings!

That seems to be one of the lessons this summer’s health challenges have been teaching me how to better do. I am far from excellent at doing that too I must confess. I do struggle with finding the right balance, deciding what is important and with wanting what I want when I want it much like my little helper Dunkin…who happens to be here with me right now insisting on a head rub!

Oh Dunkin you keep bringing me home to focus on what is most important don’t you…the people I care about the most in my life and you certainly are a very significant one of those peoples* and thankfully happen not to allow me to forget that fact either!

Oh what would I do without you?! Dunkin, Dunkin, Dunkin…

What helps you take the most important opportunity that any given moment brings?

*Cats are people too in our house!