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Yesterday morning, on my way to home from office after a good week of night shift, I hit a dog while riding my bicycle and fell down. I took the cycle from the cycle stand and after a couple of turns there was a dog who was ferociously barking after something and did not notice me. I did all my best to apply the brakes but my cycle did not halt and hit him in the stomach. He was thrown a few yards away. And there he stood up barking ferociously again. This time his subject of attraction was I. All this long, I was there down with my hands filled with mud and my jeans drenched up a bit with the stagnated water in the near by pot-hole. My butterfly type handle bar in the cycle changed to a new figure which I cannot comprehend with my little knowledge in geometry. Whatever the dog thought, he went away barking for a few seconds and did not bite me. There is a Ayyappan temple near by and an adjacent flower shop.The lady and the man, I assume them to be the owners of the flower shop, helped me wash the pant and my hands with the hand pump. The man went ahead to say that I was lucky enough that the dog did not bite me and also I might have escaped a big accident. He showed the temple and went on saying that Ayyappan saved me. I did not disappoint him saying that I don’t believe in God or religion and instead thanked him for the gratitude and expressed how I felt bad for the dog. 
On normal circumstances, I would have cursed the dog, pelted stones or cursed the government for the poor road conditions. But this time, I really felt bad for the dog . The first thing I asked mom when I reached home was “Does it pain for dogs when they are hit by vehicles? I have seen them whining away and not showing any pains after a while.” She gave me a glare and might have thought that I got a few screws loosened after this small accident withstanding the cycle.
Me : What happened in me that makes me to feel for the dog?
My Alter-ego : singing the Padayappa song,
நேற்று வரைக்கும் மனிதனப்பா , இன்று முதல் நீ புனிதனப்பா
Translation
You were a human being till yesterday
Today on, you are
What a man!
Me : grrrrrrhh!
P.S. :- Umesh writing about dog and I quoting the song and line from the movie Padayappa consecutively for the second time in a week is all co-incidence.
once i found many dogs in my street barking in a singular voice against a nice clean van that was no dog catching vehicle.there were no dogs inside that van either.i got really surprised when i found that the van had a blue cross symbol and hence the response. you were lucky. they seem to hate even those intrusions that are meant to help them.:)
Welcome to the club of dog lovers
Me : What happened in me that makes me to feel for the dog?
Instinctual brotherly love has emanated
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