The last couple of days it has started to dawn on me why it is that humans marry.
Sharing a bed with a human keeps you warm in the colder weather, and christ has it been cold overnight the past few days! When you marry, you get to live in your own place, therefore giving you more space to put all the crap you collect over the years that are threatening to take over your bedroom, which won’t contain your belongings forever. Recipes are usually set up so you can make things to serve multiples of two.
Marriage…practical. Pfft.
If you want a true mate for life, find your feline match. Humans for the most part are crap - they’re boring, they’re selfish, they’re too much work. Myself included, of course (unless I cease to be human…). I was just thinking, while glancing at a very sweet photograph of my cat that he does so little for me in the way of practical, everyday stuff and yet just when I think he’s forgotten me, or only remembers me because I get the food out of the fridge, he’ll hop up next to me and lie on my tummy.
Because my tummy is hurting. How do animals do that? They have some weird sort of magic. Admittedly, I don’t really fancy the idea of a human jumping up onto my gut because it’d most likely do a bit of internal damage.
He’s also really good at instilling peace. Sometimes too good! Looking at him nodding off tends to make me want to take a nice nap. Humans are more peaceful…when they’re absent. Not all of them, but most. More often than not, the humans you want hanging round are too busy running around, but not dear Puss. He will always have a few minutes in the day to come and sit next to me, and purr contentedly. Enjoying my company, I hope. I like to think so. They’re also a bit awkward with their affections, which puts people like me at ease.
I guess there’s a whole bunch of stuff you can only do with humans that you can’t do with cats, but you can always pay for that… Eh, things could be worse, cats are really loving friends and a few close friends are better than lots of not-so-close ones. To me, anyway.
