Passion, Dedication, and Time

I find the way to live life is by wanting. One needs to want and then create a focus around what they want. Then put everything into that focus: passion, dedication, and time. My cats are one of my focuses in life and I have to be there for them with love, I have to fill their needs, and give them time. When you have a focus in life, you will find that things will no longer work on your terms but on your focus's. Cats don't go on one's time, it's on theirs. When they need something, is when they'll get it, be it food or affection. I'm awakened every night at three in the morning so Ramona can be petted. She'll walk on me, she'll get on my desk and knock stuff over if that's what it takes to wake me up, but she will be petted. And though I'm always a little grumpy at the moment, I will pet her because what one wants, they want because they love, and I wanted her and I love her and I will sacrifice my time and sleep for her. I feel with this dedication a great bond forms, and I can affect positively the lives of other living things.

Cats themselves also have focuses in their lives. They're pretty much about getting what they want, usually for survival, but sometimes for personal appeasement. I feel like hunting is one of their focuses. I haven't actually seen any of my cats hunt, and I kind of don't want to because I'm not a big fan of the circle of life, but I have seen their cousins, lions, hunt and I feel like they have a passion for killing. And once they kill they seem to happily munch on their trophy. Hunting would take great dedication and time, when thinking about the patience in seeking prey and coming up on it, and then going at it until successfully catching something. This is a very is important focus for them because it provides a huge necessity known as food.

"How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" uses a quote by philosopher Dan Dennett saying, "Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it." Finding something to become dedicated to can be something quite difficult. There's many things that interfere with the choice one makes. People that are in one's life and the world will affect what one will choose. It's key to ignore those people and center on what one alone really wants, and even ignore want they want to want to find what they can that they will truly enjoy. Finding a focus, something to dedicate oneself to, kind of motivates one to live. It gets one to do something in this life and possible do something effective in this world, big or small. Getting by in the world and doing things isn't a breeze if there's no passion to things, that's why people need to find a focus that they have a real liking for and dedicate themselves to it and spend the time in their lives doing it.

Works Cited

Popova, Maria. "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love." Brain Pickings. N.p. n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2014

being different

I often joke about Ramona not knowing how to be cat. I feel like she kind of tries to be, but isn't quite successful. First off of course is her hunting skills, because it's just so bad, but boy does she still try. I've mentioned her hiding is terrible, because I think she doesn't fully understand what it means to hide. She also though has quite an interesting technique in attack. When she's playing with a rubber band, her favorite type of toy and also snack, she swats it around and then pounces on it all leading to the final move where she stands on her back legs, shrugging her shoulders with front legs extended and paws clasping together to try and capture the rubber band in between them, before tumbling down and twitching all over the floor. I'm not actually sure if this is a common move for cats, but normal or not, she actually fails at it quite often. Sometimes she fails to actually capture the rubber band and recently I saw her do a somersault while trying to grab it. Hunting something living is beyond her. I've seen her stare at birds flying above her as she watches with sad eyes and gives a disappointed meow as she extends her paw up reaching for the impossible. Her attempt at climbing a tree came to an end when she reached a spot no longer wanting to go higher and she just looked around like it was complete craziness. She doesn't really even have friends because I don't think she knows how to play with others, there's good intention in her eyes but the other cats just feel attacked and threaten by her, and often I just have to try and stop her because she won't give them peace when they need it. Of course sometimes she does intentionally attack others because she can be a bully, but that's only sometimes. What I mean to get from all this, is well, she's weird, but I love her for her quirks.

Weird-Bird

Birds are flyin' south for winter.

Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,

Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',

Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.

He says, "It's not that I like ice

Or freezin' winds and snowy ground.

It's just sometimes it's kind of nice

To be the only bird in town."

I felt this poem by Shel Silverstein was appropriate because, though it doesn't talk about a cat different from other cats, it talks about a bird that's different. That "Weird-Bird" goes north instead of south, unlike the rest of the birds because it likes to be the only of its kind in an area. I see this as one enjoying the feeling of not having any others like one around being able to feel almost special. Being different brings one to stand out and gives the feeling of being an own individual. Being different brings others to love and appreciate one, like I do with Ramona.

Works Cited

Silverstein, Shel. "Weird-Bird." Famous Poets and Poems. N.p. n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2014.