139. Corgi Kiss

Is there anything cuter than a Corgi?? There is, a corgi BUTT.   

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NORA:  I’m Nora McInerny, and this is It’s Going To Be Okay, a podcast slash group project slash experiment where every day we bring you a new little okay thing. Something small to start or end your day with, something to help tune us all into appreciation for the little things that are around us. When I say this is a When I say this is a group project, I mean that often we are sharing OK things that our listeners have sent to us, like today’s, and today’s OK thing is an email.

Like today’s OK thing, which came to us via email. 

NORA READING EMAIL: I’m writing in with an OK thing that happened the other night. I had had a long, rough day. I had a lot of things that I needed to do that I had not yet done, relatable. At around 9pm, I began to really feel the weight of it all. I thought that going on a walk might help, so I stumbled outside while holding back tears.

I rounded the corner and saw that my neighbor and his corgi puppy were also heading out for a walk. What. Perfect. Timing! When the dog saw me, she laid down and waited for me. When I got close, she started jumping around and spinning and wagging her tail. I bent down to pet her. For those two minutes where I was cuddling this dog, I wasn’t thinking about anything else.

This little corgi had single handedly managed to break me out of my spiraling thoughts, if only for a couple minutes. As I went on with the rest of my walk, everything felt a little bit lighter. I don’t know if I’d say that I was okay at that moment, but I definitely knew that one day it would be okay.

And if all else fails, I’ll always have corgis. 

NORA: You will always have corgis. We will always have corgis. And I, for one, come from a family that loves corgi butts. Just the butt. I mean, the whole corgi is great, but if all I can do is just get a look at your corgi’s butt when he’s walking by, I’m happy.

Our family will point out a corgi butt and be like, look at that butt. You do have to make sure you’re pointing down so that the owner doesn’t think you’re talking about their butt. But if you are standing, I don’t care who you are, if you’re standing next to a corgi, no one’s looking at your butt. We’re all looking at the corgi butt and we all know it.

Dogs do have this magical way. of making everybody feel like they are the only person who has ever existed. The other day I went to yoga in the middle of a work day. I was like, Oh God, should I be doing this? Should I be doing this? I have so much stuff to do. I’m so stressed. I went to yoga. I obviously felt amazing.

I was leaving. I thought, you know, it would be even more amazing for me to. Stop at the fancy coffee shop and get like, you know, some sort of decaf treat, you know, if it’s if it’s after 10 a. m I cannot be drinking caffeine. In the coffee shop There’s only one other patron and her dog who turns around and looks at me Like I am her long lost mother Like we are two We are lovers on a, on a train station reuniting on a, on, we are two lovers at a train station reuniting after a war.

She looks at me like she has been waiting her entire lifetime for this moment and she lunges joyfully at me. I have no choice but to get down, crouch down, crouch down to the ground. I’m six feet tall. It’s a long way down. And this dog is obsessed with me, rubbing her face at me, just loving me. And this is, my dogs greet me with a lot of joy and a lot of love.

Not like this. I’ve never been, I’ve never been greeted like this by any. living creature in my entire life. It was nearly embarrassing and I look at her and I say, Oh my God, I’ve never felt this loved. And this woman goes, Uh, she does it to everyone.

Okay, well I, first of all, I doubt it. First of all, I doubt it. What that dog and I shared was special. I think she might be excited, naturally, very. magnetic towards other people but I do think we had something special. I don’t think she does that to everyone. How would you go anywhere if she greeted everyone that way?

The point is I have felt that feeling and that dog was not a Corgi, that dog was some other short legged dog with more bulgy eyes, not a Shih Tzu, something else. I’m not a dog connoisseur but you know I know that feeling. So yeah, we’ll always have Corgis. We’ll always have corgi butts. We will always have someone’s random dog willing to greet us and make us feel like we are the only person on earth who matters.

I am Nora McInerny. This has been It’s Going To Be Okay. This is a show that we make for you, but it’s a show that we make with you. And we love sharing your okay things. You can email us. This was an email we got. You can record a voice memo and email it to us. Our email is igtbo at feelingsand. co. We’re an independent podcast.

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