as small as a world and as large as alone

3:33pm January 21, 2014

lisaquestions:

youneedacat:

fairymascot:

the other day i went with a friend to the museum, and outside its entrance, was greeted with this:

eight cats. sitting there. perfectly still. everyone around them was cooing and taking pictures but those cats did not budge. for a moment i was actually wondering whether that was supposed to be some sort of experimental new performance art.

but then one lady came out of the museum and they all got up and followed after her. good god, i hope they’re her cats. i hope they do this everywhere she goes. just follow after her and patiently wait outside every building she enters like the world’s most disciplined children.

Not like children.  Like cats who know their mind.

Yeah, I’ve had cats who would follow me for blocks at a time. Not like 8 at once, but yeah. They don’t follow like children. They follow because that’s where they want to be. Or whom they want to be with.

When I lived in the country, Fey used to follow me all the way to my mailbox and back.  (Which was on the main road, and we were off on a side road down the mountain a bit.)  She never went further than the main road, and she’d trot along right behind me.  And she would never, ever be obedient for anything.

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