The Dog

Are you crying?

Yes, sort of.

Why? What happened?

I realized something today, just now.

And...

It was raining really heavily. I was driving with difficulty. The rainwater was lashing away.

Ok..

Suddenly, out of the blue, a dog came running, or rather a puppy.

Oh!!

It ran underneath my car. Obviously, it was not a street dog. It looked terribly lost. And it was trying to shelter beneath my car.

Did you hit it?

No.. I stopped in mid junction. Slowly reversed. The next moment i know, the dog was in front of me.

You missed it. That's good no?

No, another car came fast and hit it. I think it died on the spot.  The next car went over the dead dog and crushed it.

Gosh, how sad!

I turned back, intending to run as far as possible from that horrible scene.

There's nothing much you could do, under the circumstances.

It was not really that. I was most ashamed of my thoughts. It took me some minutes to register what was actually running in my mind.

Hmmm, carry on.

I realised that i was relieved that some other car killed the dog. As long as it wasn't me, the death of an animal was not an issue.  That made me unhappy.

It's not really your fault.

I could have saved it. Perhaps i should have gotten down and took it into the car. It wouldn't have died. But I'm afraid of dogs. I couldn't imagine doing that.

Let it go. It's just an unfortunate accident. Keep calm. Take it easy.