I wrote about Sam's eternal optimism with respect to attempting to catch every snack tossed to him despite catching none of them. What I have neglected to add is that Sam began to catch a significant number of snacks in the last couple of months. On several occasions he caught about 70-80% of the goodies. Pretty impressive numbers, huh? So how did this happen? Well, Sam kept being Sam. He kept doing his thing - watch the hand intently, track its arc, quickly calculate the exact trajectory of the object using obscure algebra and calculus theorems and functions, and then open mouth at the predicted time of treat arrival. Sam was predictable. He kept doing Sam - and I perfected my tosses. I helped by tossing in perfect time to his predictable mouth opening. If we missed, we tried again. And sometimes again and again...
Sam's lesson to me is that if we keep being and doing our true self and don't give up and don't get distracted or try to be something that we are not - sometimes the outside world comes to meet us where we are. Sometimes the tosses get better and we catch more treats. Sam had to show up - he had to track, he had to open, he had to stay engaged and look for the treats on the floor that he missed, he had to keep trying - and the tosses got better...
Hmmmm..... Thanks, Sam.
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