I was remembering a line from a Bob Dylan song. “Dogs run free why can’t we, across the sands of time”. I did a search and ran across this: That’s a beautiful, poetic question.
Dogs run free because they live almost entirely in the present. They don’t measure their lives “across the sands of time.” They don’t worry about yesterday’s mistakes or tomorrow’s uncertainties. They feel the wind, chase the scent, and that is enough.
We, on the other hand, are aware of time. We remember. We anticipate. We imagine futures that haven’t happened and replay pasts that can’t be changed. That awareness gives us art, history, science, and love that stretches beyond a single moment — but it also ties us down.
In a way, we can run free — just differently.
Through music.
Through love.
Through moments of complete presence.
Through letting go, even briefly, of the story in our heads.
Maybe the real question isn’t why we can’t run free.
Maybe it’s: What would it take for us to?
And I realized that this is what the Wonder Method offers, a way to become more and more present. Feeling beings are what we are, yet so much of the time we are pushed out of it and into an overactive mind. Feeling and unwinding the parts of feeling that keep us stuck brings us more deeply in to the Present. It simply happens.
