Hachiko: A dog’s story

 

Spent the Friday watching a movie via streaming on the internet. ‘Hachiko, A dog’s Story’. Another film that has a very deep and meaningful message to how we perceive the meaning of love. This film is not about romance between man and woman, but more entirely upon faithfulness between dog and master. To tell you the truth, it made me tear up a number of times and had a deep message to how we should love.

The thing about this film, its not mainly meaningless Hollywood erotic romance, but based on pure, loving and sentimental romance, the romance that binds two humans together rather than tear them apart in the long run. Considered one of the best 88 minutes movie I have ever watched in my life.

I heard of this in a book by a prominent counsellor somewhere::

Tuhan ciptakan 100 bahgian kasih sayang. 99 disimpan disisinya dan hanya 1 bahagian diturunkan ke dunia. Dengan kasih sayang yang satu bahagian itulah makhluk saling berkasih sayang sehingga kuda mengangkat kakinya kerana takut anaknya terpijak.

(God created 100 parts of love. 99 of them were kept by his side and one part was blessed upon the earth. With this one part, all beings in this world love each other until horses raise their hooves so that their children won’t be trampled.)

I was told before that the power of pure love blessed by our creator is so powerful to the soul that it alone heals all sufferings and brings one closer to God.

Back to the topic, this film is about a tiny aspect of pure love between man and animal. There are many aspects: love between parent and child, husband and wives, friends, teachers, and the environment, and for me, if the meaning of pure love is cherished by the whole of the human race, how nice would this world be.