Juha-Matti Santala
Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.

Even the dogs have started to notice

The past three weeks, I’ve been shouting my good feelings into the aether. The other day, I tooted:

I have regained

happiness in my mornings,
clarity in my thoughts,
creativity in my writing,
passion for my projects
and kindness in my interactions with people.

It’s incredible how swift and complete 180 my life has been lately after making some drastic changes to it.

For the longest time, I thought I was mostly keeping the sadness and gloominess inside me but I guess that wasn’t quite through. When you feel good, you glow it to everything around you. I’ve found myself having great discussions with my neighbours that I haven’t really talked with in the three years I’ve lived here.

The biggest surprise has been the dogs though. Somehow, they have started to notice this shift. My neighbour’s dog that has been ignoring me for these years was jumping on my leg, wagging its tail in pure happiness the other day and got a well-deserved pat on the head. The day after that, two other dogs came to say hi to me when I was waiting for a bus.

They must be sensing something changing in me.


If something above resonated with you, let's start a discussion about it! Email me at juhamattisantala@gmail.com and share your thoughts. This year, I want to have more deeper discussions with people from around the world and I'd love if you'd be part of that.