~my piece of thought~

LIVING IN DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD

Most dogs, beside the abused dogs, seem to have an easy life like sleeping a lot, getting fed and getting medical care when they are sick or injured.

People take their dogs out for a walk or play.

What a great life do the dogs have, right?

Well, we say people with a similar, carefree existence enjoy a dog’s life.

People have no troubles or responsibilities and can come and go as they please, sleep all day, and never have to work.

However not everyone has it so easy.

In fact, some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world.

That means many people are competing among themselves for the same things, like good jobs, academy achievements and positions.

In order to be successful, a person has to work like a dog that have to work very, very hard.

Such hard work can make people dog-tired.

And, the situation could be worse if they became sick as a dog.

Still, people say every dog has its day which means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life.

To be successful, people often have to learn new skills.

Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks.

They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

Some people are compared to dogs in bad ways like those who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog.

Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want while mean dogs are often used to guard this property.

Mean dogs bark or attack people who try to enter the property.

However, sometimes a person appears to be mean and threatening but is really not so bad.

We can say his bark is worse than his bite.