Is everything I write about nonsense?

Alternative title: How much does any of this matter? How can we ever know?

This headline isn’t a joke. It’s meant to be a bit lighthearted, sure—I promise I’m not actually trying to take anyone down a nihilistic crisis path—but it’s something I’ve been wondering in all seriousness.

I have spent the majority of the last five years of my life thinking, talking, and writing about dogs.

At first it was just on Instagram (and in person, of course, when I was around friends who I knew wouldn’t get too fatigued of hearing the same topic). Then I started this website with Sean’s help a year later. Another year or so after that I literally left my full-time marketing agency job so that I could devote myself to Paws and Reflect. (And on the side, to make an income since this blog doesn’t cover everything yet and likely never will (which is totally okay!), to be a freelance writer covering… you guessed it, dogs.)

And I love thinking, talking, and writing about dogs.

It’s brought me a lot of personal …