Preamble
I have three cats: Tootsie, Thalia, and Bosco.
For some, this would confirm the label of a batty old lady with cats. For others, it simply means I don‘t have much of a life.
I do - but it is different and, at the same time, probably pretty similar to yours.
After having lived on my own for three years, I decided I needed some life around me - something to help me focus on things other than myself.
Tootsie, Thalia and Bosco fill me with mixed emotions: joy, a fierce sense of protection, pleasure, laughter and comfort. They test my patience and wits practically every day. I am coming to realize that they have taught me a great deal since they entered my life with the stealth and grace that is theirs.
Tootsie, Thalia and Bosco are a powerful reminder of life going on and that lives are lived concomitantly. I have a limited understanding of what goes on in their lives, and they have a limited one of mine.
This holds in the other life. People have a limited understanding of my life, and I do not have much insight into theirs. We see each other through narrow prisms. Whatever we see or imagine to understand is a tiny sliver of what really goes on in another person.
These lessons and musings are what living with my cats and mindfully observing them teach me.
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