Cat in People: Felinesophy

What is the most magnificent lessons learned from our dear cats' teachings?

Selfish!

Yes, as you have familiarized yourselves with cats' sophisticated characters, the most intriguing part is their strong own willingness. Cats just do whatever they want and they wish to do. No matter what we have told them. Even when we call their names', they most often do not come to us immediately, well, unless they are hungry, of course.


At times when they sleep in our couch, even in our bed, they just wanna be the only 'thing' in those exquisite premises. Nothing else matters. Although you are the couch or bed owners.

During enjoying their meals, most cats even do not want to share their bowls with their moms and siblings. They just wanna be the only one who eats in that bowl.

As for myself, being more than 30 years living with different cats, somehow they got severe ill at times when I am broke. I was so sad and had dilemmas on choosing priorities at that time. There was a time I had to force myself to borrow my friend's cash to bring them to the vet because I did not have money at all. No savings. Just sufficient for daily meals and transportation for work at the office.

At other time, I was a fresh graduate and had no savings at all, and employed in the first job for 2 weeks, so I hadn't got my monthly salary yet. I was so blessed to find a very kind vet, I promised her to pay after I received my salary and to convince her I offered her to leave my identity card as a guarantee. However, she said no and I could still kept my identity card in my wallet at that time.

At all times, my cats 'keep' reminding me to diminish my selfishness. It's not easy to realize that, and it's not easy too to let go all our ego. I'm so blessed to learn kindred spirit from my late parents and my cats. Gradually, I determined myself to do the very best to help whenever I can. Even during tough times at my own.

This evening I received an important message from a wonderful spirit, a Canadian gentleman resides in Ottawa. I have met many beautiful souls during my journey in this virtual world, and one of them is Sylvain. His message reminded me to my cat's teaching and moved me to write this post. His ideals to help others encourage me to do the same. He proposes a simple social experiment to prove Satyagraha (The Force of Truth and Love from Mahatma Gandhi) still works today. Thus, it is meant to leverage Peace and Prosperity, as we all aware that many people become unemployed since 2008. If more people loosing their jobs, based on facts and research, it is afraid will endanger peace in the world. As he suggested, as we all can do this simple thing for the good cause for Peace and Prosperity, let's take a real action as follows: Positive Petition Experiment: If you have a Twitter account, Facebook group, blog, or a website, please copy this message below with the exact same words so that Google Search engines will pick it up and it will become a Positive Petition. "HELP US CREATE SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT TODAY." For further details, please visit Sylvain at his blog The Global Collaborator in his posting Timeless Principle of Satyagraha.


Let's start to care others and take action. Sylvain's idea is just a simple thing to do for everyone to help people and raising awareness for Peace and Prosperity. If we don't start with ourselves, then who will do it if not us?

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