My Dog da Bes - Core Experience

"Man, things are getting crazy out there," I said as I got home. And then, despite it all, a smile hit my face--there was Luna, slowly hopping off the couch, coming over to greet me!

Well, now there was one priority and one priority only. Walkies with Luna!
 

I know everyone says this, but my dog is the best dog ever. Everyone thinks their dog is special.

The more I look around, the more I fail to make any real friends in town, the more I feel like there's really only one thing bringing me back home--Luna.

After walkies, as I lay on the couch, petting Luna, I couldn't help but look down at her old butt and think back on the times when she was so spry as a puppy. She was a gift from my dad before he 'virtually died' by giving up on holding work and just trying to spend every minute of his life in HyperNova.

Even thinking of him made me think of what he might have done if he was still 'around.' Anymore there were all these people who only lived, even in the real world, in HyperNova. You'd see them walking around with AR goggles on, looking at everything through HyperNova's "virtual filters," transforming our physical world into some other, more desirable place.

Life was the life of the junkie, people chasing their next digital fix.

But through it all, despite the rage thinking of HyperNova caused me, thinking of my father, Luna was there, wagging her tail. None of this was her fault. And not only that, none of it bothered her nearly as much as it bothered me. I could just let it all go. I didn't have be consumed by my own anger. There was another path.

No fancy enhancements. No glitchy holograms. Just pure, unadulterated love. 

She's the realest thing I know. I've known her since I was a child and she was a puppy. 

Nothing was more alien, more foreign to me than the fact that there were now people cybernetically enhancing their pets. Were these hunting dogs? For what forests? For what prey?

I was lost in thought as I sat down and read for a while. The novel I was reading was a bit annoying, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Did this guy really think people wouldn't own real dogs in the future? I should think anyone would rather burn down the city than live their life without a pet.

When I turned and looked back over, Luna was giving me the stupidest grin I'd ever seen in my life.

 My dog is truly the best.