Hachi--

Tonight, I stayed in with the mother and watched a movie.

You know to bond and what not.

Basically cried the living daylight out of me.

Even worse, it was a true story & true stories get to me the most cause... it really happened.

I say you watch it even if you read the "SPOILER" below...

Spoiler in quotes since I'm only tellling the 100% original true story.

Hachiko, an Akita dog from Odate. His owner Hidesaburo Ueno was a university professor @ University of Tokyo.

Baby Hachikō (ハチ公)

Everyday Hachiko would walk with his owner to the train station.

Every day he would wait faithfully at the Shibuya train station for him to come home-- this was their ritual.

Ueno passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage one day at the university. Hachiko waited and waited. Ueno never came home.

He was taken in by others, but he routinely escaped. Escaped to his old home where the puppy found out that his owners no longer lived there.

He went to the only other place he knew, the train station.

The loyal friend waited for 9 years.

Every day.

Every train.

9 years later he passed away in the streets of Shibuya.

He now has a bronze statue at the place of which he waited everyday.

A true story and remembrance of of loyalty, love and devotion.

Gets me thinking, why is this pure form of affection and loyalty so hard to find, in much more complex creatures-- people.

Why are we constantly questioning the ones were with. The ones were devoted to?

Devotion seems to lie only within will and heart.

Loyalty and love isn't supposed to be easy.

At the end of the day, if you truly love, you will make it work, no matter how hard it gets.

Cause true love doesn't die-- even 9 years of absence later.