A short first-person YouTube monologue (by Lennon Bone) reflecting on parallels between the creator and their family's Boston terrier, Tist. Both experience morning anxiety and pursue a single goal each morning—Tist to catch a squirrel, the creator to find peace—expressed through walks and the creator's practice of prayer/meditation.
This is Tist. Tist is our family's Boston terrier, and we're a lot more similar than it may seem from the outside. Most mornings, Tist looks at me with a lot of anxiety and kind of a desperate face as I let him outside. He has one agenda, and that is to catch the squirrel. And most mornings I also have a lot of anxiety and one agenda. But the difference is I'm trying to catch peace. And so I too go outside and take a walk and find my favorite spot to pray and meditate. And it seems that most days Tist and I's journeys are very similar. The squirrel lets him get just close enough that he'll try again, and I find the same while I don't fully feel at peace, most days I get just close enough that it's worth pursuing.
